This unit provides guidance and information to individuals who, during their work with animals, will need to apply sedation or short-term anaesthesia for a brief period and mild pain level procedure. Online only – 6th and 7th of May 2025. Course Details Course length: 200 hours Credits: 20 Teacher: Paul Flecknell You will cover Anatomy and […]
This unit provides information on the use of anaesthetics for surgical procedures. It also includes information on the use of anaesthetics to provide humane restraint during other, non-painful, procedures, such as imaging. After completion of this module, learners should have an understanding of factors influencing the selection and application of anaesthesia for these procedures. Online […]
Research Animal Training (RAT) will be hosting another of our anaesthesia workshops in May 2025. As previously it will be delivered using a combination of pre-recorded webinars, “live” webinars and e-learning modules. New for this workshop - a discussion of the use of local anaesthetics as anaesthetic adjuncts in small laboratory rodents. The workshop will […]
What is a gene? What is DNA? How do these make proteins? What goes wrong and causes disease in the human body? This course provides a comprehensive introduction into genetics, covering the genetic code and how this leads to protein formation, as well as how errors in DNA can lead to disease. After this course, […]
This unit prepares individuals to be able to identify normal condition and behaviour of experimental animals and enable them to differentiate between a normal animal and one which is showing signs of pain, suffering or distress which could be a result of factors including environment, husbandry or the effect of experimental protocols. It will also […]
Our regular workshops on prevention and alleviation of pain and distress have dealt primarily with post-surgical pain. Although we've had overwhelmingly positive feedback, we have had frequent requests to include more information on other sources of pain and distress. Matt Leach, Jon Gledhill and I have been working to achieve this, and have redeveloped and […]
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