Catheterization of the Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein to Perform Hemodynamic Measures, Infusions and Blood Sampling in a Conscious Rat ModelJing Feng 1, Yvonne Fitz 1, Yan Li 1, Melinda Fernandez 1, Irene Cortes Puch 1, Dong Wang 1, Stephanie Pazniokas 2, Brandon Bucher 3, Xizhong Cui 1, Steven B. Solomon 1
1Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 2Harvard Apparatus, 3ADInstruments
Vascular accesses to measure hemodynamics, provide fluids and perform blood sampling are important to any small animal model study. We present a technique for implanting catheters into the carotid artery and the common jugular vein in an anesthetized rat for connecting to a system to perform monitoring, infusions and sampling.
