PainVet: escala digital de valoración del dolor en perros.

Abstract

With the exponential growth of smartphone devices, several applications have been developed in veterinary science that have contributed to facilitate the access to information in different areas, including pain assessment, which has been a constant concern of animal health professionals. The objective of this work was to develop and implement a digital App based on the Melbourne and Glasgow modified scale, rising data for the Android operating system and as result obtain a digital scale, with a score of 27 points, based on 5, levels of pain, and a PDF exporter. For the verification of this application, all the dependent variables used by the Melbourne and Glasgow scale were quantified, in two methods: manual and digital and then compared. 87 post-surgical dogs were used, of which, 43 patients were Manual (printed scale) with a total of 208 observations at different times, while 44 patients were tested with PainVet, with a total of 197 observations, defining a confidence interval (P<0.05) and a T-test for compare de distribution of results. This led us to conclude that PainVet is a useful tool that allows us to assess and record levels of post-surgical pain in canines. In addition, it was possible to observe that patients with post-surgical pain most frequently present mydriasis, salivation, vomiting, and changes in their mental state, signs that become key in the assessment of post-surgical pain in dogs