This page will gradually be populated with information on anaesthesia and analgesia of research animals. There are many excellent resources cited in Norecopa's database, including:

• Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia (4th Edition) by Paul Flecknell (2015) 
• Pain Management in Animals (1st Edition) by Paul Flecknell and Avril Waterman (2000)
• Handbook of Wildlife Chemical Immobilization (5th Edition) by Terry J. Kreeger and Jon M. Arnemo (2018)
• Anaesthetics and analgesics used in adult fish for research: a review (Martins et al., 2018) 

More resources may be found here:

• Training modules in anaesthesia and analgesia developed for compliance with EU directive 2010/63
• Guidance on anaesthesia and analgesia from the NC3Rs
• A collection of guidelines on anaesthesia and analgesia
• Textbooks on the subject in the TextBase database. Specific searches, may be made using the search engine at the top of this page, and its filters (in the right-hand margin when the search results appear). Here are the results of general searches for "anaesthesia" and "analgesia".
• Audiovisual educational and training materials
• More information on individual species is available here

Further reading

• Srinivasa et al. (2020): The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain. Pain, doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939
• Erickson RL et al. (2019): Alfaxalone-Xylazine anesthesia in laboratory mice (Mus musculus) Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 58: 30-39 
• Clutton RE (2018): A review of factors affecting analgesic selection in large animals undergoing translational research. The Veterinary Journal, 236: 12-22
• Pain management for laboratory animals (Committee on Anaesthesia of GV-SOLAS supported by Working Group 4 of TVT, the German Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare), May 2015
• Moody CM & Weary DM (2014): Mouse aversion to isoflurane versus carbon dioxide gas. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 158, 95–101
• Whelan G & Flecknell PA (1992): The assessment of depth of anaesthesia in animals and man. Laboratory Animals, 26, 153-162.
• Peña-Guzmán DM (2017): Can nonhuman animals commit suicide?

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