There are now two
pain scales validated to assess surgical pain in the cat, the UNESP - Botucatu Multidimensional Composite Pain Scale and the Glasgow Composite Measure Pain Scale — Feline.4, 5 The Colorado State University Feline Acute Pain Scale is also a useful tool to assess pain in cats, although it has not been validated.3 Regardless of how you are assessing feline postoperative pain, we can assume that cats will feel pain.
Simple, online, practice - friendly numerical rating
scales are available and are slowly helping to improve recognition of feline
pain.13 One such
scale has been developed (but not yet validated) by Colorado State University.13 A currently validated assessment tool is the UNESP - Botucatu multidimensional composite pain scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&r
scale has been developed (but not yet
validated) by Colorado State University.13 A currently
validated assessment tool is the UNESP - Botucatu multidimensional composite
pain scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&r
scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure
Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&r
Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid
scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.&r
scale for the measurement of acute
pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute
pain in cats.»