Taking place at the Norton House Hotel, outside Edinburgh, on 30th March the event is titled ‘All you ever wanted to know about Fish Anaesthesia but were afraid to ask’. It is set to cover topics like averseness, analgesia, prolonged anaesthesia or immobilisation, adverse effects and peri-operative care. Moreover, any documented feedback on survival during or post-anaesthesia will be considered.
Event organizer J-P Mocho told The Fish Site: “To some regards the anaesthesia day is the follow-up of the first keynote speech. Fish are a protected lab species under the British legislation and therefore supplying anaesthesia and analgesia are a legal requirement during some experimental procedures. How can we achieve that in practice? Let's brainstorm together, share practice and experience. Surely the lab experience can help the fish vet similarly. The second keynote speaker is a perfect example of that cross-road, as he will present in both meetings.”
Programme
09.00 Registration
09:30-10:00 Principles of anaesthesia applied to fish
10:00-10:30 Have you got anything for pain?
10:30–11:00 How to avoid the aversive shores
11:00-11:15 Refreshment break
11:15–11:30 How to make everyone sleep in a public aquarium
11:30-11:50 Anaesthesia of large lab fish
11:50-12:10 Anaesthesia of farmed fish
12:10-12:40 Introduction to group discussion and experience sharing
12:40-13:10 Lunch
13:10-13:30 Electrical stunning: a dazzling knock-out or a blitzkrieg?
13:30-14:15 Norway to refine? Isoeugenol vs. tricaine
14:15-14:45 How not to cross your zebra and other lab challenges
14:45-15:00 Refreshment break
15:00-16:30 Small group presentations:
• Toxicity: any issues to discuss?
• Do you provide analgesia? If not, why not?
• Has anyone tried something other than tricaine? Detail success or
failure.
• Discussion on routine protocols from sedation to euthanasia. Any
room for refinements?
• Could we agree on one recommendation drug for euthanasia?
Would it be species specific?
To register click here.
