Department of Veterinary Pathobiology | |||||||||||||
Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||
Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
Credits | 4 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
Course Level | Post experience masters programme Module 3B, Master Programme in Laboratory Animal Science | ||||||||||||
Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: The examination is an online written examination on 4 hours. Questions are presented on a precise time and answers must be returned at a deadline four hours later. The participant can take the exam at any place. 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||
Organisation of Teaching | |||||||||||||
Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
See Course content. | |||||||||||||
Course Contents | |||||||||||||
The course will cover various ways of anaesthetizing rodents, pigs and small ruminants for research as well as a few experimental techniques on these. | |||||||||||||
Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
During three practical days the participants will go thorugh various types of anaesthesia and some procedures in selected species. The teaching will be mainly practical during those days. The curriculum must be read by self study. | |||||||||||||
Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
The participants will be able to anaesthetize the selected animal species in a safe and scientifically sound way. The participant will have knowledge on some selected techniques. | |||||||||||||
Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
o Swindle, MM: Surgery, Anesthesia and Experimental Techniques in Swine, Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1998 Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 o Waynforth HB & Flecknell P: Experimental & Surgical Technique in the Rat, Academic Press, 1992 Chapter 1, 2, 3 (only pg 138-142), 4, 5, 6 o Flecknell P: Laboratory Animal Anesthesia. Academic Press, 1996. Second edition o Flecknell P & Waterman-Pearson A: Pain Management in Animals, WB Saunders, 2000 o EU DG XI Working party report on euthanasia, part 1 and part 2. http://www.lal.org.uk/workp.html | |||||||||||||
Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
Axel Kornerup Hansen, akh@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 35332726 | |||||||||||||
Attendance Fee | |||||||||||||
16100 kr | |||||||||||||
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