Peter J. White

…Sabrina Lomax, Peter A. Windsor. Data curation: Charissa Harris, Peter J. White. Funding acquisition: Sabrina Lomax. Methodology: Sabrina Lomax, Charissa Harris, Peter A. Windsor, Peter J. White. Supervision: Peter J. White. Writing…

RESEARCH ARTICLE Topical anaesthesia reduces sensitivity of castration wounds in neonatal piglets Sabrina Lomax1☯, Charissa Harris1☯, Peter A. Windsor1‡, Peter J. White2‡* 1 Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Science…

…Peter White and were investigated using nociceptive parameters, injection pressure and tissue distribution. Both Dominique Van der Saag injection techniques significantly reduced the nociceptive parameters regardless of the local anesthetic Received: 21…

…Peter White and were investigated using nociceptive parameters, injection pressure and tissue distribution. Both Dominique Van der Saag injection techniques significantly reduced the nociceptive parameters regardless of the local anesthetic Received: 21…

RESEARCH ARTICLE Topical anaesthesia reduces sensitivity of castration wounds in neonatal piglets Sabrina Lomax1☯, Charissa Harris1☯, Peter A. Windsor1‡, Peter J. White2‡* 1 Faculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Science…

population data (5, 6) in bushfire-affected regions of NSW and Victoria Research Team and Reflexivity indicate that there were 3.6 million cattle and 21 million sheep Three authors (BC, MW and MB-T) developed the semi- in bushfire-affected regions, although many would not have been structured interview guide independently of other authors close to fire within those regions because of the coarse scale of (see Supplementary Material). The interviews were conducted the population data (BC, unpublished data). The local impact by the lead author (BC). The analyses were first conducted on some individual farmers was very high. For example, in a by BC with subsequent assistance and commentary from all recent case control study, some farms suffered an impact of up co-authors. BC is a male veterinary epidemiologist (PhD, to $2 million (AUD) and deaths of all livestock on a farm (BC, FANZCVS) and beef producer who was from a bushfire affected unpublished data). farm. MB-T is a female medical epidemiologist (PhD) who Bushfires (wildfires) are increasing in frequency globally, has extensive experience in qualitative and mixed methods especially as a result of longer fire seasons in temperate or boreal epidemiology and strategically assisted in the project to ensure regions (7, 8). Little research has been conducted on the impacts methodologies were well-implemented. MW is a male veterinary of bushfires on livestock in any part of the world. For example, epidemiologist (Ph.D., FANZCVS) and has used qualitative a systematic literature review by co-authors (BC, AH and CP) methods in veterinary epidemiology for several years. revealed barely a dozen publications, mostly case studies in The interviewer (BC) established a new professional Australia (9–22). More specific published

RESEARCH ARTICLE Effect of Topically Applied Anaesthetic Formulation on the Sensitivity of Scoop Dehorning Wounds in Calves Dominique McCarthy*, Peter Andrew Windsor, Charissa Harris, Sabrina Lomax, Peter John White School of Life…

…A Responses Aurora Ortín 1,2, * , Sergio Villanueva-Saz 1,2 , Delia Lacasta 1,2 , Peter Andrew Windsor 3 , Antonio Fernández 1 , Pablo Quilez 1,2 , Hector Ruiz 1,2 , Alex Gómez…

Animal, page 1 of 7 © The Animal Consortium 2015 doi:10.1017/S1751731115001421 animal Effect of a topical anaesthetic formulation on the cortisol response to surgical castration of unweaned beef calves D. McCarthy†, S. Lomax, P. A. Windsor and P. J. White Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia (Received 21 October 2014; Accepted 1 July 2015) Impracticality and cost of existing pain management strategies during surgical castration of beef cattle have limited their widespread implementation on-farm. A farmer-applied topical anaesthetic formulation, originally developed and used commercially to mitigate the pain of mulesing in lambs, was investigated for its potential use for managing pain in surgically castrated calves. This formulation contained lidocaine, bupivacaine, adrenalin and cetrimide. In this study, 24 Angus bull calves were randomly allocated to (1) surgical castration (C, n = 8), (2) surgical castration with the post-operative application of topical anaesthetic (CTA, n = 8) and (3) sham castration/control (CON, n = 8). The experiment was conducted over 2 days, with treatment groups evenly represented across each day. Calves were habituated to handling before the experiment and blood samples were collected for plasma cortisol measurement at defined time periods before, at and post treatment, (at −0.5, 0 h, then +0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 4 and 6 h). There was a significant effect of time on cortisol concentrations across all treatment groups ( P < 0.01), with lowest concentrations at −0.5 and 6 h and peak concentration at 0.5 h being significantly higher than the cortisol response at 0 h. The effect of treatment was not significant ( P = 0.077), however, there was a trend for CON calves to display lower cortisol

…Espinoza A, Dominique McCarthy A, Peter J. White A, Peter A. Windsor A and Sabrina H. Lomax A,B A Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. B…