Pain in animals

In the world of medicine, pain is associated with different types of diseases. Pain can be sudden such as a headache, fever, aches and pains, or pain can be continuous such as arthritis. There are many different kinds of pain relievers available to help reduce pain either by prescription or non-prescription medications. The first type of medication is non-narcotic analgesic drugs that can be bought over-the-counter without a prescription. According to Turley, (2014) aspirin (Bayer),…

On October 30, 2009, a man was admitted to a Michigan emergency room complaining of pain and numbness in the left hand and arm and pain in the upper back and neck, which had persisted for 10 days. The back pain had improved after chiropractic intervention, but the numbness was getting progressively worse. The right arm showed normal mobility, but the patient was unable to lift the left arm even a couple of inches. A CBC and routine chemistry panel were performed and were normal other than an…

The agony, the suffering, the painful knowledge of knowing you are going to die with excruciating pain, with no say in what happens to them, as you just watch your time run out. Assisted suicide grants someone the choice of a life or death decision in a more ethical way. Assisted suicide and suicide are two different things. Suicide is where an individual takes his/her life in a manner that is referred to as being inhumane such as hanging or a gunshot. Assisted suicide is where a professional…

Article Summary In the article by Ezzati, Zimmerman, Mindy, Katz Sundermann, Smith, Lipton and Lipton (2014), the goal was to look at the relationship between pain and hippocampal volumes in older cognitively intact adults. Specifically, this study was looking at differences in volume in subparts of the hippocampus as related to pain. This study looked at 86 adults over the age of 70 with a mean age of 80.2 years. Additionally, 53.8% were women, and 54.7% were white, and the sample had a mean…

Exotic animals are not pets. Would you like to have a snake crawling through your house? Or a jaguar lying on your couch waiting to bother with you and then attack? Titi monkeys, lemurs, seahorses, great green macaws, white bengal tigers, scorpions, and crocodiles are only some of the large list of animals that live with people and share their day to day life. They are kept as regular pets, even if they are not happy, safe or obtained legally. Therefore, people should not be allowed to…

who suffer from pain is increasing. Currently, it is recorded that more than 116 million Americans suffer from chronic pain conditions.1 Routinely, pharmaceuticals such as opioids have been prescribed for pain management. However, there has been an increasing epidemic of prescription opioid abuse, leading to a growing recognition for the need of non-pharmacological therapies for pain management.1 In 2015, data suggested that pain medication accounted for 28% of the overall pain management…

Before. Waterboarding is a form of torture predominantly used during a war. It’s a method of interrogation used on detainees that forces them to provide answers/speak the truth. This form of barbaric torture involves having a detainee being restrained and strapped to an inclined board or platform. A cloth is used to cover the detainee’s face and water is then poured onto the inclined face and into the prisoner’s mouth or nose. The technique simulates the sensation of drowning without suffering…

Animals have the ability to experience a variety of feelings and emotions just as we humans do. They experience pain, pleasure, agitation, and even sadness.Just as we suffer, as do they. During experiments, mothers are breed repeatedly and then separated from the young. When pain is evident, the same process that takes place in our bodies, happens in theirs as well. For the duration of the experiment, test subjects are required to be put under an anesthetic. Reports show that at least 10…

Re "Hooked on a Myth," Oct.20,2015: Victoria Braithwaite claims that fish feel pain. I absolutely agree with Braithwaite. Some people might think of fish as dumb animals,because they don't show much emotion when a hook is in their mouth or a spear is thru their heads. But this doesn't mean that fish cannot feel pain. I have gone fishing very many times and know the empty looking face that most fish make after you reel them in, and the flapping gasping for water look while lying on the deck.…

1. Could Mr Smith’s culture influence his pain assessment? Why? What strategies could you employ to ensure that you are adequately addressing Mr Smith’s pain? A proper Pain assessment helps in preparing an accurate pain treatment plan. It involves a continuous process and multidimensional factors that are required in formulating an effective pain management plan. There are many factors that are responsible for a person’s pain, which may be Psychological, Physical, Emotional or Cultural. In…