Handbook of Laboratory Animal covers every area of animal care and aims to improve animal welfare through best practice and refinement of techniques.

Handbook of Laboratory Animal provides:

• All five modules of the Home Office licensee training requirements and gives advice on making licence applications
• Sections on both large and small laboratory animals, birds, amphibians, and wild species
• New information on the ethical review process and the European legal framework
• Lots of handy reference data and details of anaesthetic doses

Contents

General

1. Education and Training for the Licence Holder
2. The Regulatory Framework
3. Health, Safety and Security
4. Pain, Stress and Humane End Points
5. Humane Methods of Killing
6. Introduction to Laboratory Animal Husbandry
7. Anaesthesia of Laboratory Animals
8. Management of Pain, Suffering, Distress and Lasting Harm
9. Conduct of Minor Procedures
10. Introduction to Surgery and Suturing
11. The Project Licence Application

Species

12. Small Laboratory Animals
13. Genetically Modified Animals and Harmful Mutants
14. Carnivores
15. Primates
16. The Larger Domestic Species
17. Birds
18. Amphibia
19. Wild Animals

Index

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