Dose range finding study for the efficacy of meloxicam administered prior to sodium urate-induced synovitis in cats.

Objective: To determine the lowest efficacious dose of oral meloxicam for relieving pain in cats with a sodium urate (SU)-induced acute inflammatory synovitis.

Study Design: Randomized, blinded, controlled, and four-way crossover study.

Animals: Eight surgically neutered cats (four males, four females) paired according to sex.

Cardiac troponin I concentrations following medetomidine-butorphanol sedation in dogs.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of medetomidine-butorphanol sedation on serum cardiac troponin I (cTnI) concentration, a marker of myocardial ischemia and injury, in healthy dogs undergoing pre-surgical radiographs for orthopedic procedures.

Study Design: Prospective clinical study.

Animals: Twenty client-owned dogs with no history of cardiac disease.

Effect of medetomidine and its antagonism with atipamezole on stress-related hormones, metabolites, physiologic responses, sedation, and mechanical threshold in goats.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of medetomidine and its antagonism with atipamezole in goats.

Study Design: Prospective randomized crossover study with 1 week between treatments.

Animals: Six healthy 3-year-old neutered goats (three male and three female) weighing 39.

Student assessment of the educational benefits of using a CD-ROM for instruction of basic surgical skills.

Rationale For Study: At Texas A&M University, introductory-level surgical lecture and laboratory notes were converted to a CD-ROM format that included illustrative photographs as well as instructional videos demonstrating the basic surgical skills that all students were required to master. The CD-ROM was distributed to all students in place of traditional paper notes in the second-year surgical class in the professional veterinary curriculum. The study reported here was designed to evaluate the educational benefits of the use of the CD-ROM in place of traditional paper notes by examining the attitudes and practices of students before and after exposure to the CD-ROM format.

Pharmacokinetics and selected behavioral responses to butorphanol and its metabolites in goats following intravenous and intramuscular administration.

Objective: To evaluate disposition of a single dose of butorphanol in goats after intravenous (IV) and intramuscular (IM) administration and to relate behavioral changes after butorphanol administration with plasma concentrations.

Design: Randomized experimental study.

Animals: Six healthy 3-year-old neutered goats (one male and five female) weighing 46.