Gunatilake Mangala
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo , Colombo , Sri Lanka.
Adv Physiol Educ. 2018 Jun 1;42(2):263-266. doi: 10.1152/advan.00019.2018.
Similar to human beings, pain is an unpleasant sensation experienced by animals as well. There is no exception when the animals are subjected to experimental procedures. Our duty as researchers/scientists is to prevent or minimize the pain in animals so as to lessen their suffering and distress during experimental procedures. The basics of the physiology of pain and pain perception, analgesia, anesthesia, and euthanasia of laboratory animals were included to complete the program, before the practical part was attempted and before advanced topics, such as comparison of anesthetic combinations, were discussed. Therefore, this course was organized in Sri Lanka for the first time in collaboration with the Comparative Biology Centre of Newcastle University, UK. During this course, we were able to demonstrate how an anesthesia machine could be used in laboratory animal anesthesia for the first time in the country. None of the animal houses in the country were equipped with an anesthesia machine at the time of conducting the course.
与人类相似，疼痛也是动物会经历的一种不愉快的感觉。当动物接受实验操作时也不例外。作为研究人员/科学家，我们的职责是预防或尽量减少动物的疼痛，以减轻它们在实验过程中的痛苦和不适。在尝试实践部分和讨论诸如麻醉组合比较等高级主题之前，该课程纳入了实验动物疼痛生理学、痛觉、镇痛、麻醉和安乐死的基础知识，以完善课程内容。因此，本课程首次在斯里兰卡与英国纽卡斯尔大学比较生物学中心合作举办。在本课程期间，我们能够在该国首次演示如何将麻醉机用于实验动物麻醉。在举办该课程时，该国没有任何动物房配备麻醉机。
