Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman, AAS, LVT, RALTg



Charles River Labs

Email: justin.hartman2@crl.com

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Surgical Anesthetic Preparation in the Juvenile NHP

Surgical Anesthetic Preparation in the Juvenile NHP

Date: Friday, September 16, 2022
Time: 9:30 am
Due to the high demand for NHP’s as research models, and the disruptions that Covid 19 created amongst the suppliers of NHP’s, we have been dealing with a downward trend in the range of body weights in our surgical animals. 4 to 5 years ago, the average size of an NHP that we would be performing a surgical procedure on was around 3.5 kgs. Now, we are routinely performing major surgical procedures on animals from 1.5 kgs to 2.5 kgs. These smaller animals are technically juveniles and they can have different anesthetic needs. This change in size of the animal can […]