Pain, Distress and Humane Endpoints - October 2016
Audience: Seasoned IACUC members
Goals:
IACUC members recognize their role includes:
- Ensuring minimization of pain and distress
- Evaluating humane endpoints
Objectives:
- Define pain and distress
- Define experimental and humane endpoints
- Evaluate procedure for pain, distress and humane endpoints (IACUC role)
- Recognize methods to manage pain and distress
- Assess protocol which includes unrelieved pain and distress
Module Developers: Mary Lou James, Eugene Matullo, Brent Morse, Jim O’Malley, Nora Wineland, JoAnne Zurlo
Submit comments or questions to olawdpe@mail.nih.gov.