Scott's MD-PhD Adventure

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Obviously Bad

Animal Class. Today's topic: Anesthetics and Analgesics

The environment can have an effect on your animals. Think about it, if you were crammed in coach for days and days, and then moved to first class, you would be different too.

You don't wanna rest your surgical tools on the animal's chest cause it's not gonna be able to breathe. It's only 25g! Ha!

Hypothermia is a serious problem, and some people try to warm cold animals up quickly with a heat lamp. Don't put it right on them because you're gonna roast them! Hehehe. Heat lamps should be at least 3 feet away.

Obviously if the mouse wants to keep rolling over, he's not adequately anesthetized yet!

You don't want circulatory or respiratory failure. It's really hard to do CPR in a mouse! *pauses for nonexistent laughter*

You can check certain reflexes when anesthetizing. If you can touch their cornea and they don't blink...they're dead. That's obviously bad.

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