Division of Veterinary Anaesthesiology and Pain Therapy
Research group leader
- Name / Titel
- Dr. med. vet. Claudia Spadavecchia
- claudia.spadavecchia@vetsuisse.unibe.ch
- Phone
- +41 31 631 27 80
Staff
- Shannon Axiak-Flammer
- Daniela Casoni
- Sabina Diez
- Annalisa Giovannini
- Olivier Levionnois
- Alessandro Mirra
- Mathieu Raillard
- Helene Rohrbach
Research focuses
- Quantitative assessment of nociception
- Pain behavior in animals
- Systemic perioperative pain treatment
- Loco-regional analgesia
Methods
- Nociceptive Withdrawal Reflex model
- Quantitative Sensory Testing
- Quantitative Gait Analysis
- PK/PD modelling
- Behaviour
Short description
Our main research interest is pain in animals. We aim at developing objective, valid and reliable tools to evaluate species-specific nociceptive physio-pathological processes and pain behaviour and at refining procedures and techniques to improve pain treatment in domestic and laboratory animals. Our major areas of interest are
- neurophysiological characterization of acute and persistent pain to provide evidence in the context of animal welfare;
- optimization of methods to recognize and treat clinical veterinary pain;
- development of loco-regional analgesia techniques to be applied in clinical and experimental settings.