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Alternatives > Category: Anaesthesia
Anaesthesia of Rats
| Summary Description Anaesthesia of rats teaches students the basics and advanced skills of anaesthetics. It succeeds in simulating the complex technique of anaesthetics, using the features of modern computers and a superb mathematical model, which describes the concentration of an anaesthetic drug in the major compartments of the body. |
Supplier(s)
BSL Publishers (The Netherlands)
Price:One copy costs 250,00 euro;
2, 3 or 4 copies cost 204,20 euro a piece;
5 thru to 10 copies cost 181,51 a piece;
11 or more copies cost 158,82 euro a piece.
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Review by Lara Marie Rasmussen, DVM of College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 East 2nd Street, Pomona, CA 91766-1854, USA, (commissioned by eurca)
Summary
Anaesthesia of rats is limited in scope, but sufficient for introductory learning related to its topic. It is more useful for this purpose than the living animal learning tool....
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Jan Nab (j.nab@IVLOS.UU.NL) from The Netherlands 16/5/2002
Response from the developer of Anaesthesia of Rats to the review by Lara Rasmussen
I agree with the comments regarding the unreliability of the software and the lack of technical support from the publisher. More often certain software does not run on new(er) platforms. The learning effect is most of the time quite low when a program does not work. Hence, it should be quite important to pay ample attention to these aspects.
You could say that the program was insufficiently debugged before publishing. The process of debugging is often underestimated, and because it is usually done just before the deadline, it is sometimes skipped, but this should not be any excuse for the publisher. One could wonder whether an educational product for such a small target group should be published by a commercial agency. Expenses are not returned to profit and thus production costs are cut down, which is not beneficial to the technical quality.
Mrs. Rasmussen writes that the injection techniques are lacking in the program. At the time of developing, we decided not to include this topic. Injection techniques have a much broader application en should have been published on a separate CD ROM. Unfortunately, this idea has never proceeded. In Anesthesia of Rats, we wanted to stick to the core of the program, which was anesthesia.
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