Topics include: bioethics, animal handling, aseptic surgical technique, anesthesia and analgesia, animal health and well-being, euthanasia, biosecurity, occupational health & animal biosafety concept, and animal biosafety on a species-specific basis. You can click this help file for more information.

Link: AALAS Learning Library

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• Manual Restraint and Common Compound Administration Routes in Mice and Rats (Journal of Visualized Experiments, JoVE)
• Procedures with Care
• Blood Collection in Mice Using the Saphenous Vein - An Alternative to Retro-orbital Collection
• Research Animal Training - Introduction video series for handling, administration techniques and basic surgical skills

• Survival Surgery Procedures: Rodents (Johns Hopkins University)
• Principles of Surgery Home Page (University of Penn) 
• Survival Surgery and Postsurgical Care
• Aseptic Technique in rodent surgery (tutorial)

Intra-operative Monitoring for the mouse, rat, guinea pig, rabbit, pig and goat poster

• Humane Endpoints in laboratory animal experimentation
• National Centre for the 3R of Animals in Research – Humane Endpoints

• Education and Training in Lab Animal Science and Welfare (LAL – Lab Animals Ltd)
• The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science- information on laboratory animal science and alternatives to the use of animals in research, teaching and school dissection classes.
• General principles for welfare assessments
• Grimace Scales