Pain and distress
Altweb pain management database
This database includes information about anaesthesia and analgesia for most commonly used laboratory animals, including: rats, mice, primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, guinea pigs, birds, sheep, fish, and exotic species. It provides information about available drugs and the side effects of commonly used drugs. Citations are from publications that have published laboratory animal studies or human clinical studies with relevance to animal research. This database covers the period 1990 to the present, and is updated quarterly.
http://apps2.jhsph.edu/altweb/aadb/aadb_search.cfm
Assessing the Health and Welfare of Laboratory Animals (AHWLA)
This website has a number of tutorial programs on assessing the health and welfare of laboratory animals as well as an introduction to recognising post-operative pain. The tutorials are supported by video material and provide excellent learning resources.
http://www.ahwla.org.uk/
AWIC – Pain and Distress
Links to resources on pain and distress
Guidelines for the Recognition and Assessment of Animal Pain
Website from the University of Edinburgh aimed at providing methods for the recognition of acute and chronic pain in animals.
http://www.link.vet.ed.ac.uk/animalpain/
HSUS Pain and Distress: Recommended Resources
A bibliography of recommended resources pertaining to pain and distress in animal research.
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/ARI/P_D_Resources.pdf
NHMRC animal wellbeing guidelines
The NHMRC has developed a detailed document: "Guidelines to promote the wellbeing of animals used for scientific purposes: The assessment and alleviation of pain and distress in research animals". The guidelines aim to promote the wellbeing of animals used for scientific purposes and to minimise their experience of pain and distress.
Recognition and alleviation of pain and distress in laboratory animals
A comprehensive overview about behaviour, pain, and distress in laboratory animals. The volume explores: (a) Stressors in the laboratory and the animal behaviours they cause, including in-depth discussions of the physiology of pain and distress and the animal's ecological relationship to the laboratory as an environment. (b) A review of euthanasia of lab animals--exploring the decision, the methods, and the emotional effects on technicians. Also included is a highly practical, extensive listing, by species, of dosages and side effects of anaesthetics, analgesics, and tranquillisers.
www.nap.edu/catalog/1542.html
Recognizing Pain in Animals
A website from the Institute of Laboratory Animal Research
http://dels-old.nas.edu/animal_pain/