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Concepts of General Anesthesia and Assessment of Adequacy of Anesthesia for Animal Surgery

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Animal Pain

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Pain is one of the most compelling and physiologically complex experiences of humans. It is usually a very unpleasant sensation that defies consistent satisfactory definition. What is commonly labeled as pain by humans covers a wide range of subjective phenomena, usually resulting from the perception of a noxious stimulus. Debate continues as to whether animals commonly used in teaching and research perceive pain as humans do (68).

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    Ralph L. Kitchell

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    Howard H. Erickson

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Steffey, E.P. (1983). Concepts of General Anesthesia and Assessment of Adequacy of Anesthesia for Animal Surgery. In: Kitchell, R.L., Erickson, H.H. (eds) Animal Pain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7562-0_8

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