Specific Techniques

 

Anaesthesia and analgesia

• ACEC guidelines
• Anaesthetic monitoring checklist: SAMPLE
• NHMRC Guidelines. Factsheet I "Pain Management: Anaesthesia, analgesia and anxiolytics". In "Guidelines to promote the wellbeing of animals used for scientific purposes: The assessment and alleviation of pain and distress in research animals"

Surgery

• ACEC guidelines - Aseptic Surgical Techniques in Rodents

Blood collection

• ACEC guidelines
• Saphenous vein technique
• NSW DPI guidelines
• Removal of blood from laboratory mammals and birds. Laboratory Animals (1993) 27, 1-22

Euthanasia

• ACEC guidelines
• ACEC guidelines on stunning
• American Veterinary Medical Association 2000 Report on Euthanasia

Experimental neoplasia

• ACEC guidelines
• UKCCCR Guidelines for the Welfare of Animals in Experimental Neoplasia

Antibody Production - Monoclonal antibodies

• NSW DPI guidelines
• NHMRC guidelines
• Antibody resource page

Antibody Production - Polyclonal antibodies

• ACEC guidelines
• Antibody resource page

Genetically modified animals

• ACEC policy
• Guidelines - Generation, breeding, care and use of GM and cloned animals (NH&MRC)
• Transgenic/Targeted Mutation Database
• Transgenic Animal Web

Wildlife research

• NSW DPI guidelines

Post-graduate surgical training

• NSW DPI guidelines
• NHMRC guidelines