A very broad audience participating in animal testing can find a fundamental introduction to anesthesia in Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia and Analgesia, Fifth Edition. For more than 30 years, this has been the go-to source for accurate, understandable, and fact-based information. The book is broken down into four sections: anesthesia preparation (definitions, equipment, preparations, anesthetic and analgesic agents), management and monitoring of anesthesia (pre-procedural preparations, monitoring, problems and emergencies through the procedure, advanced and specialized techniques), and analgesia and post-operative care (recovery, prevention of and management of post-operative pain).

A frequent laboratory species' anesthesia is covered in the last sections, including rodents, rabbits, cats, dogs, ferrets, pigs, sheep, and goats, primates, reptiles, amphibians, and new chapters focused on birds, fish, and cephalopods. This edition continues the tradition of providing veterinarians, technicians, researchers, and members of ethics committees with a well-balanced dose of useful guidance, fundamental information, and modern, updated references, medications, and methods.

  • Includes an updated list of agents and current anesthetic procedures
  • Expanded to cover fish, birds, and cephalopods
  • Provides a new and comprehensive formulary table covering anesthetics and analgesics for all species presented