Subject: RE: Stretch it out in May Ghoulies!Day 2 in the lab is complete! WooHoo! Successfully cannulated a rat femoral vein! Yaaaaa! (We have to use a microscope so half the battle is figuring out depth when doing the surgery...hard...haha ) But I got it in....however, more work is necessary to be able to do my experiments properly...the surgery is a bit nerve racking, I won't lie. Trying not to do anything to unnecessarily kill the animal! (Deep breaths, deep breaths )...we are using fairly small rats right now for learning the technique. its hard to place a cannula in them!! My mom figures if I can cannulate a rat vessel that doing it on humans should be no problem in the future! |