Piglets' acute responses to procaine-based local anesthetic injection and surgical castration: Effects of two volumes of anesthetic.

ABSTRACT: Surgical castration of piglets is painful, but practiced routinely in commercial pig production. Procaine-based local anesthetics are used to mitigate piglet pain during castration in some countries. Yet, effects of the volume of anesthetic injected remain under-studied. The volume of drug administered may modulate the pain mitigating effect via variation in intra-testicular pressure at injection, potentially leading to pain or discomfort, as well as variation in the dose of active ingredient administered. The present study investigated the effects of injection with two volumes of a procaine-based local anesthetic, 0.3 vs. 0.5 mL per testis, on acute responses of 3-4 day old piglets. A total of 290 piglets were divided into 5 treatment groups: castration without anesthesia, castration afte

SUBMITTER: Coutant M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9395716 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature