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The animal facility includes what staff?
Manager
Animal caretakers
Centenarian
What is hypopressure?
Negative pressure that maintains a flow of air into the room, used in quarantine rooms so the microorganisms won’t escape
What is hyper pressure?
Positive pressure out of the room to protect animals from contaminants
What is the legal definition for Housing in the directive 2010/63/EU?
- Establishment (building, department )
- Holding room (rooms, staples etc)
- Animal enclosure(cages, aquarium etc)
What are the minimum requirements in the animal rooms?
- ventilation
- temperature control
- humidity
- lighting
- noise
- alarm systems
Health and appropriate caging
What is husbandry?
Carrying for the animals
What does IVC stand for?
Individually ventilated cages (airtight with air supply, room with very few allergies, no odor in room)
Give 5 examples of enrichment
- Behavioural (create environment that mimics wild nature)
- Social (more partners)
- artificial (running wheels or toys)
- food (work to get food)
- control the environment (inside outside, hot cold, dark bright etc).
Translate arbejdstilsynet to English
Danish working environmental authority
Translate sundhedsstyrelsen to English
Danish health and medicines authority
What does hazards include?
Allergy, physical injuries, harmful substances, zoonoses etc
How is an allergy developed?
Allergen (protein) penetrates body surface and forms immunogen.
Immune cells carry immunogen to lymph nodes
T cells recognize immunogen
T cells migrate to skin
What is the difference between pain and nociception?
Nociception = detection of a potentially harmful event
Pain = psychological response
What did Smith and Boyd say in Lives in the balance 1991 about pain?can animals feel pain like us?
Can we prove that animals do not feel pain? No. We must check anatomical and physiological signals for pain. See if animals display response to pain. See if the response is inhibited by drugs that inhibit pain
What causes negative stress?
Unpredictability and uncontrobility
What is positive stress?
Flight or fight mechanism
Survival mechanism
What are the symptoms of pain?
- Superficial breathing -> poor oxygenation if blood
- nausea, vomiting, intestine paralysis
- cannot regulate body temperature
- decreases food and water intake
These also cause slow healing
How to control pain?
Recognition
Assessment
Alleviation
How to measure stress?
For bigger animals:
Heart rate
Blood pressure
Body temp.
Biomarkers such as corticosteroids, adrenaline etc.
Sub acute or chronic stress
Oxidative stress
Distress/degression
Pro and con of fasting?
Prevents suffocation, vomiting and leakage from stomach.
Con. Stressful to fast and weakens the animals. Can even be harmful for digestive system in some animals
How to monitor anesthesia?
- Absence of righting reflex, that makes the animal turn around when put on its back
- Absence of withdrawal reflex, when a rat is pinched between a toe.
- In larger animals, Absence of palpebral reflex and corneal reflex.
- swallowing reflex
Give examples of zoonoses.
Herpes,tuberculosis, salmonella, rabbis, ringworm etc.
What knot should be used in surgery?
Square knot
What is laparotomy?
What is laparotomy = abdominal surgery
