Restraint, venipuncture, endotracheal intubation, and anesthesia of miniature swine.

Miniature swine are useful as experimental animals for investigations involving major surgical procedures, provided that proper restraint and anesthetic methods are employed. The methods and drugs described herein are not intended to be all-inclusive but rather those found most applicable to a wide variety of studies with miniature swine at this laboratory. This report is intended primarily to guide those unfamiliar in handling miniature swine during initiation of studies with that species.

Bends: detection of circulating gas emboli with external sensor.

Circulating gas emboli associated with rapid decompression are detectable in superficial vessels of animals by the use of an ultrasonic Doppler flowmeter transducer which is applied externally.