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Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals

  • 2nd Edition - June 9, 2008
  • Editors: Richard Fish, Peggy J. Danneman, Marilyn Brown, Alicia Karas
  • Language: English

Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals focuses on the special anesthetic, analgesic, and postoperative care requirements associated with experimental surgery. Fully revise… Read more

Description

Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals focuses on the special anesthetic, analgesic, and postoperative care requirements associated with experimental surgery. Fully revised and updated this new edition provides the reader with agents, methods, and techniques for anesthesia and analgesia that ensure humane and successful procedural outcomes.

Key features

  • Provides researchers with the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of the use of anesthesia and analgesia in laboratory animals
  • Thoroughly updated with new material on ferrets, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates
  • Includes hot topic areas such as pain research, ethical issues, legal issues, and imaging studies

Readership

Veterinary and medical students, senior graduate, graduate students, post-docs, and researchers who utilize animals in biomedical research.

Table of contents

SECTION I – ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PHARMACOLOGY

Chapter 1
Anatomy, Physiology, and Effects of Pain
George J. DeMarco and Peter J. Pascoe

Chapter 2
Pharmacology of Injectable Anesthetics, Sedatives, and Tranquilizers
Robert E. Meyer and Richard E. Fish

Chapter 3
Pharmacology of Inhalation Anesthetics
David B. Brunson

Chapter 4
Pharmacology of Analgesics
James E. Heavner and Dale M. Cooper

SECTION II – MONITORING AND EQUIPMENT

Chapter 5
Anesthesia Delivery Systems
George A. Vogler

Chapter 6
Monitoring of Anesthesia
Jennifer C. Smith and Peggy J. Danneman

Chapter 7
Waste Anesthetic Gas Safety
Jennifer C. Smith


Chapter 8
Strategies for Assessing and Minimizing Pain
Alicia Z. Karas, Peggy J. Danneman, and Joan Cadillac

Chapter 9
Post-procedural Care of Commonly Utilized Research Animal Subjects
Victoria A. Hampshire and Judith A. Davis


SECTION III – PRACTICAL ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA OF TRADITIONAL LABORATORY ANIMAL SPECIES

Chapter 10
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Rodents
Diane Gaertner et al. [Diane J. Gaertner, Margaret Batchelder, F. Claire Hankenson and Troy M. Hallman]

Chapter 11
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Rabbits
Neil S. Lipman, Robert P. Marini, and Paula A. Flecknell

Chapter 12
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Nonhuman Primates
Sulli J. Popilskis, Donald R. Lee and David B. Elmore

Chapter 13
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Dogs and Cats
Elizabeth Armitage-Chan

Chapter 14
Anesthesia and Analgesia of Ruminants
Alexander Valverde and Thomas J. Doherty

Chapter 15
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Swine
Alison C. Smith and M. Michael Swindle


SECTION IV – PRACTICAL ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA OF NON-TRADITIONAL LABORATORY ANIMAL SPECIES

Chapter 16
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Ferrets
Jeff Ko and Robert P. Marini

Chapter 17
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Other Mammals
Jeff Wyatt

Chapter 18
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Birds
John W. Ludders

Chapter 19
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Reptiles
Dorcas P. O’Rourke and Audrey L. Jenkins

Chapter 20
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Amphibians
Dorcas P. O’Rourke and Audrey L. Jenkins

Chapter 21
Anesthesia and Restraint of Laboratory Fishes
Michael Stoskopf and Lysa Pam Posner

Chapter 22
Anesthesia and Analgesia of Invertebrates
Cornelia Gunkel and Gregory A. Lewbart


SECTION V – SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA OF LABORATORY ANIMALS

Chapter 23
Pain Testing in the Laboratory Mouse
Dale J. Langford and Jeffrey S. Mogil

Chapter 24
Ethical Issues in Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals
Larry Carbone and Nelson Garnett

Chapter 25
Regulatory Issues
Lynn C. Anderson and Laura Conour

Chapter 26
Management of Chronic Pain
George DeMarco

Chapter 27
Anesthesia and Analgesia in the Fetus and Neonate
Joanna C. Murrell, David J. Mellor and Craig Johnson

Chapter 28
Novel Delivery Systems for Analgesic Drugs in Laboratory Animals
Lisa Krugner-Higby, Lesley J. Smith, and Timothy D. Heath

Chapter 29
Non Pharmacologic Pain Control
Sara Savage

Chapter 30
Anesthetic Considerations for In Vivo Imaging Studies
Anthony Nicholson and Brenda Klaunberg

Index

Review quotes

Review of first edition:
"All the contributors should be congratulated on filling an important gap in knowledge, and moreover, filling it to a high standard."—Laboratory Animals

Product details

About the editors

RF

Richard Fish

Affiliations and expertise
NC State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, USA

PD

Peggy J. Danneman

Affiliations and expertise
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA

MB

Marilyn Brown

Affiliations and expertise
Charles River Laboratories, East Thetford, VT, USA

AK

Alicia Karas

Affiliations and expertise
Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Anesthesia, North Grafton, MA, USA

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