| Responsible Department | Department of Veterinary Disease Biology | ||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 4 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Post experience masters programme | ||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, Autumn 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| 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 course covers laboratory animal anaesthesia and surgery needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA category D level Having finished the course the student will have the following: Knowledge The student knows - principles for anaesthesia needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA catgory D level Skills The student can - euthanize, anaesthetize, alleviate pain and do simple procedures in common laboratory animals Competencies The student can - take part in planning of procedural parts of animal experiments | |||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||
| o Swindle, MM: Surgery, Anaesthesia, Imaging and Experimental Techniques in Swine, CRC Press, 2007 Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 o Suckow MA, Weisbroth S, Franklin CL: The Laboratory Rat, Second Edition, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005, chapters 19, 20 o Fox J, Anderson LC, Loew FM, Quimby FW: Laboratory Animal Medicine, Academic Press 2002, chapter 22 o Flecknell, P and Waterman-Pearson A: Pain management in animals. W.B Saunders 2000. o EU guidelines for Euthanasia. Will be available as PDF on Campusnet. o Chapter 27 from the old edition of the Laboratory Rat, 2000, on experimental surgery. | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, dobj@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32724 | |||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||
| 16900 kr | |||||||||||||
| Study Board | |||||||||||||
| Study Committee V | |||||||||||||
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