SECAL pre-congress workshop: Update and Refinement of Blood Sampling in Rodents

November 16, 2021
SECAL pre-congress workshop: Update and Refinement of Blood Sampling in Rodents

Course Features

Description

Workshop promoted by the Spanish Society for Laboratory Animal Sciences (SECAL), within its XVI Congress. This will be a hands-on activity, with auviliary material (graphic cards, audiovisuals) and the support of the teachers during the practice. The workshop will have several workstations, each one dedicated to a technique, so that the student will be able to perform them all.
This course does not have any sections.

Goals

The goal of this workshop is to reinforce, refine and recycle the knowledge of professionals in various blood extraction techniques in rats and mice.

The techniques to practice will be, mainly, the following:

  • Retroorbital extraction in rat and mouse.
  • Cardiac extraction in rat and mouse..
  • Venous extractions:
    • Cranial vein cava in rat.
    • Lateral tail vein in rat and mouse.
    • Saphenous vein in rat and mouse.
    • Temporal cannulation of the tail in rats.
    • Facial vein in mouse.

Faculty

Marta Giral Pérez. Veterinarian Diplomated by the European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Responsible of Animal Welfare and Designated Veterinarian, Almirall S.A., Barcelona

María Granada Picazo Martínez. Research Technician, University General Hospital of Albacete

Ruth M. Casanueva Ovejero. Research Technician, GlaxoSmithKline, Madrid 

Sonia Nuncio Viejo. Research Technician, Charles River, Almirall S.A., Barcelona

Students

This workshop is aimed to professional accredited for functions C (performance of procedures), D (design of projects and procedures), E (on-site supervision of the welfare and care of animals), or F (designated veterinarian) in rodents , described in the current Spanish laws on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (Real Decreto 53/2013 and Orden ECC / 566/2015).

Course details

No students: minimum: 6; maximum: 10.

Duration: 3 h.

Scheduled time: 15:00 – 18:00 h.

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: https://congresosecal.org/


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