The use of a biopsy punch in surgical preparation of drug self-administering animals

Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1994 Sep;49(1):233-4. doi: 10.1016/0091-3057(94)90482-0.

Abstract

This report describes a simple surgical method of exiting an implanted intravenous catheter through the skin via a nonsutured site. The preparation, which makes use of a biopsy punch, avoids placing the catheter exiting point through the incision used for subcutaneously fixing the catheter platform on the back of the animal.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biopsy / instrumentation*
  • Catheterization / instrumentation
  • Infection Control / instrumentation
  • Self Administration / instrumentation*
  • Self Administration / methods*