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Pig Surgical Preparation and Postoperative Care
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2026
All animal procedures described here must be conducted in accordance with institutional animal ethics guidelines and approved by IACUC. All procedures must follow the principles of the 3Rs—Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement—and must be performed by trained personnel. Surgical Preparation and Physiological Monitoring This video provides an introductory overview of surgical preparation, intraoperative monitoring, and postoperative care in swine. It is intended to familiarize learners with key...
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Rabbit Preoperative Preparation, Surgical Procedures, and Postoperative Care
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2026
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Basic Mouse Care and Maintenance
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2023
Mice (Mus musculus) are small rodents that breed and sexually mature quickly, making them perfectly suited to generating large animal colonies for biological research. As compared to other mammalian species, mice are simple and inexpensive to maintain in the laboratory. Nevertheless, mouse colonies do have specific husbandry needs that are critical to preserving animal health and safety as well as experimental reproducibility. This video demonstrates standard practices that ensure mice are...
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Stereotactic Injection of Hydrogel into a Post-Stroke Mouse Model
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2025
Source: Wilson, K.L., et al. Injection of Hydrogel Biomaterial Scaffolds to The Brain After Stroke. J. Vis. Exp. (2020)This video demonstrates the stereotaxic injection of a hydrogel into the stroke core of a post-stroke mouse, highlighting its role in scaffold formation that mimics the extracellular matrix, promotes cellular infiltration, and supports angiogenesis, underscoring its neurotherapeutic potential in stroke recovery.
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Peptic Ulcer Disease V: Surgical Management and Nursing Care
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2025
Surgical management and nursing care are crucial in treating Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD). Here is an organized and enhanced overview of the surgical interventions and the associated nursing care for PUD: Surgical Interventions for Peptic Ulcer Disease Vagotomy: This procedure aims to reduce gastric acid secretion by cutting a portion of the vagus nerve. While effective, its frequency has declined due to the availability of effective acid-suppressing medications. It may be performed with or...
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Consistent monitoring helps separate effects caused by the procedure from outcomes associated with the biological experiment. Changes in activity, posture, wound appearance, food intake, or water intake can indicate that recovery is influencing the animal’s condition. Recognizing these changes promptly supports appropriate intervention and produces more reliable observations by reducing unrecognized procedure-related variation.
These supportive measures address different recovery needs after a procedure. Prescribed analgesia helps manage pain, while warmth and hydration support the animal when recovery is not progressing normally. Their use contributes to reduced distress and improved welfare, and careful adjustment of support allows care to respond to the mouse’s observed condition rather than follow an unchanged routine.
Reduced activity, abnormal posture, declining food or water intake, changes at the wound, and other departures from the expected recovery pattern warrant attention. Such findings may reflect pain, impaired healing, or infection. They are important because early recognition gives the care team an opportunity to adjust support and determine whether additional intervention or a humane endpoint is needed.
Humane endpoints provide a predefined welfare safeguard when recovery deviates substantially from expectations. Rather than allowing worsening distress or complications to continue unchecked, they support timely decisions about intervention or ending an animal’s participation. In biological research, this approach strengthens ethical oversight while helping ensure that study procedures do not compromise animal welfare unnecessarily.
A routine assessment should examine activity, posture, wound appearance, food intake, water intake, and other relevant health indicators. The observer should compare findings with the expected recovery pattern and record notable changes. This structured approach makes deterioration easier to recognize, supports consistent decisions about prescribed support, and creates a clearer record of the animal’s recovery.
Postoperative housing should be appropriate to recovery and paired with attention to warmth, hydration, food and water access, and the animal’s overall condition. The overview supports adjusting these forms of support when recovery is abnormal, rather than treating them as fixed requirements. Appropriate management reduces distress and helps maintain conditions in which recovery and observations can be assessed consistently.
Standardized records document observations, supportive measures, changes in condition, and responses to intervention across the recovery period. They improve communication and make deviations from expected healing easier to identify. For biological studies, consistent documentation also supports reproducibility, helps distinguish procedure-related effects from experimental findings, and demonstrates that animal-welfare decisions were made through an organized process.