The pathophysiology of dying and death, related to veterinary patients, has warranted less attention than normal and abnormal physiologic processes related to life preservation. In addition, many veterinary patients are euthanized, which prevents observation of natural disease progression, while ameliorating suffering. Acute death in human medicine can serve as a model for understanding mechanisms of death in veterinary patients under certain conditions. The specific cause of cardiac arrest in several different models of disease elucidates end-stage disease processes. Understanding the path to death and dying in veterinary patients physiologically serves to guide best practices focused on alleviating suffering.

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垂死的病理生理学。

与兽医患者有关的死亡和死亡的病理生理学，比与生命保存相关的正常和异常生理学过程应引起较少的关注。此外，许多兽医患者都被安乐死，这可以防止观察自然疾病的进展，同时减轻痛苦。人类医学中的急性死亡可以作为了解某些条件下兽医患者死亡机制的模型。在几种不同疾病模型中，心脏骤停的具体原因可阐明终末期疾病进程。从生理角度了解兽医患者的死亡和死亡路径有助于指导着重减轻痛苦的最佳实践。