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