Recent advances in anesthesia, monitoring, pain assessment and analgesia provide many opportunities for improving the quality of our in vivo scientific data, and promoting high standards of animal welfare. The appropriate use of electronic monitoring, and the importance of more basic supportive measures during anesthesia will be described. This will provide participants with a framework for evaluating the appropriate use of these techniques. New methods of assessing pain give us the opportunity to use analgesic agents more appropriately. They also give us new insight into the likely efficacy of particular analgesic agents. This section of the presentation will update participants on the application of cage-side assessments of pain, and provide a better understanding of the appropriate use of analgesics.

Learning Objectives:

1) To provide participants with a framework for evaluating the appropriate use of monitoring methods.
2) To update participants on the application of cage-side assessments of pain, and provide a better understanding of the appropriate use of analgesics.