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Obtain healthy rats from licensed animal traders or the University
Animal Units.
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Do not perform dissections outside school laboratories.
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Before starting the dissection:
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- Ensure that students have covered any wounds on exposed
parts of their bodies with sterile dressings.
- Ensure that students have worn laboratory gowns, surgical/disposable
gloves and facemasks.
- Rinse dead rats with dilute disinfectant before handling
them over to students for dissection.
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Rinse the interior parts of the rats with 70% alcohol after
they are cut open.
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If it is suspected, during dissection,
that the rat is diseased, stop the dissection and dispose of the
rat in the proper way. |
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Seek medical treatment promptly in case of accidental injury
during dissection.
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After performing dissection:
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- Wash hands throughly with liquid soap and water.
- Soak all dissecting instruments and boards in disinfectant.
- Clean all bench surfaces with disinfectant.
- Dispose of the dissected animals quickly and properly. Place
the animal carcasses in double sealed plastic bags, label
the bags, and dispose of them at a designed refuse collection
point.
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Do not rear rats in school for use in dissections. |
