Veterinary Guidelines

Obtaining Veterinary Care: This document outlines the hours and contact information for the ULAM veterinary staff, including how to contact the on-call veterinarian during weekends and holidays.

Animal Quarantine & Conditioning: Guidelines per species for quarantine and conditioning of incoming animals, and for transportation of animals on campus or off campus.

Procedure Guidelines: Guidelines for procedures such as tail biopsy, blood collection, rodent identification, and rabbit antibody production.

Surgical Guidelines: Guidelines for survival surgery on rodents and non-rodent mammals, and for surgical suites.

Anesthesia & Analgesia: Guidelines per species for use of anesthesia and analgesia.

For more veterinary guidelines, please go to the ULAM website.

Town Hall Meeting Presentation in September 2009 discussed behavior based interviewing, laboratory security, thenew controlled substances in research program, tumor monitoring requirements and post-operative monitoring requirements.

Town Hall Meeting Presentation on May 18, 2009 discussed changes in monitoring and record retention guidelines.

For additional research resources, please visit the MLibrary UCUCA page.