Gas anesthesia and safety issues
Use of gas anesthesia require knowledge about safe operations.
Main content
Gas anesthesia provides the best opportunity to control the anesthesia and provides the most secure anesthesia for the animal. This reduces the risk of complications in anesthesia.
Working with gas anesthesia assumes that the user has knowledge of how the equipment works and knows how to make a leak test before use.
Correct use
The individual user is responsible for testing the device and equipment before use and reporting to the owner / responsible person for errors or omissions. In case of equipment failure, poor ventilation or other deviations and undesirable incidents, please report electronically non-conformance form found here
Pregnancy
Pregnant or persons planning pregnancy should not work with gas anesthesia at UiB.
Pregnant woment shall not work with gas aneshesia
Contact the Occupational Health Service at UiB for more information.
Training
Be sure that you are appropriately trained before you start to use gas anesthesia
Training takes place in 3 steps:
1) Course in experimental animal education (LAS 301/302 - theoretical introduction)
2) Compulsory course on gas anesthesia (theory and practice)
3) Practical review of gas anesthesia / equipment on site is mandatory
The training must be documented. For training contact beate.kluge@uib.no
