Laboratory animal anaesthesia / Paul Flecknell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flecknell, P. A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laboratory animals.

Animal anesthesia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 321 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The fourth edition of Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia provides a basic guide to anaesthesia for a very diverse audience needing content with a straight-forward, structured style of writing. It has been updated with the most recent information on the effects of anaesthetics in different laboratory species, and new details of new techniques and equipment. Included is information on pain assessment and pain management in all species, but with a particular emphasis on new information for mice and rats. With newly revised, full-colour illustrations to facilitate best learning, Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia, Fourth Edition, provides procedures, key points and invaluable advice from a well known and respected veterinary anaesthetist and scientist with over 30 years of experience in the field. Information on all species, but with a particular focus on procedures involving rats and mice used in research, Provides those with limited experience of anaesthesia with the information they need to carry our procedures effectively, safely, and humanely, as well as those with more experience to continue a career involving the use of animals in biomedical research, includes rapid, easily accessed information using tabulated summaries, Written by a veterinary anaesthetist and scientist with over 30 years experience in the field, and who is actively engaged in research in this area Book jacket.

Contents:

Basic Principles of Anaesthesia

Managing and Monitoring Anaesthesia

Special Techniques

Analgesia and Post-Operative Care

Anaesthesia of Common Laboratory Species: Special Considerations

Recommended Techniques and Physiological Data. When No Injectable Anaesthetic Is Recommended, Inhalational Agents Should Be Used

Estimation of Required Quantities of Volatile Anaesthetics and Anaesthetic Gases

Examples of Dilutions of Anaesthetic Mixtures for Small Rodents

Manufacturers of Equipment and Other Items Illustrated or Cited in the Text.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-311)and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Flecknell, P. A. Laboratory animal anaesthesia.

ISBN:

9780128005781

0128005785

OCLC:

921831225

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.