Abstract
The present clinical study was carried out on 18 dogs presented to Veterinary College Hospital with various orthopaedic conditions. They were randomly divided into three groups each of 6 animals to compare analgesic efficacy of meloxicam, ketoprofen and carprofen in post-operative orthopaedic pain management. Dogs of group I, received meloxicam @ 0.2 mg/kg b.wt. i/m once followed by oral dose 24 hourly, group II ketoprofen @ 1.5 mg/kg b.wt. i/m once daily and group III carprofen @ 4 mg/kg b.wt. orally 12 hourly, as analgesics for 5 days. Result revealed that in canine orthopaedic cases meloxicam was the best followed by ketoprofen and carprofen.
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