COMMONLY USED ANAESTHETIC AGENTS FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS

 COMMONLY USED ANAESTHETIC AGENTS FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS

Anesthesia for Laboratory Animals: For mice, ketamine is used alone intramuscularly. Usually, I/M is not recommended in Mice due to small muscle mass and may cause lameness in mice. Also, Injection may cause discomfort and local tissue irritation. Ketamine is rarely administered alone due to its poor muscle relaxation. Ketamine has been used in combination with various other anesthetic drugs, but it is most commonly combined with Xylazine or Medetomidine. 

The Drugs/dose and route of administration are as follows:-

 

COMMONLY RECOMMENDED ANESTHETIC AGENTS FOR LABORATORY ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

NEEDLE SIZE USED FOR BLOOD VESSEL CANNULATION IN DIFFERENT SPECIES

 Reference:

1.   CCSEA (CPCSEA) Guidelines 2018

2. Parasuraman S, Raveendran R, Kesavan R. Blood sample collection in small laboratory animals. Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics. 2010 Jul;1(2):87.

                                                                END OF DOCUMENTS

You may like to read these links: 

1. List of All SOPs and Documents for the  Microbiology Laboratory

2. List of All SOPs and Documents for In-vitro Laboratory

3. List of All SOPs and Documents for the Animal House Facility

4. List of All SOPs and Documents for Invivo Laboratory

5. List of SOPs and Documents for CCSEA (CPCSEA)

6. BIOCHEMICAL DATA OF COMMON LABORATORY ANIMALS

7. HAEMATOLOGICAL DATA OF COMMON LABORATORY ANIMALS

8. COMMONLY USED ANAESTHETIC AGENTS FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS

9. MINIMUM SPACE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS

10. ANIMAL EQUIVALENT DOSE CALCULATION BASED ON BODY SURFACE AREA AND GUIDELINES FOR MAXIMUM INJECTION VOLUME, BY SITE LOCATION, SPECIES, AND GAUGE SIZE.

SHARE

Owner

Hi. I’m Writer of Researchsop.com. ’ ’ Please share these SOPs to all concern pharma people for their development. I like to fullfill the need of curious people. These things inspire me to make things looks better.

• 
• 
• 
• 
•