EQUIPMENT FOR IMPROVEMENT OF CENTRAL ANIMAL FACILITIES

该动物资源改善项目的目的是提供 计划扩建动物饲养区和核心手术区 CWRU动物资源中心（ARC）的设施，主要项目的基本 确保高水平的动物护理和支持所必需的设备 适合使用这些设施的研究项目的口径 同时满足或超过所有PHS、USDA和AAALAC标准。 由于预计对先进技术的需求将急剧增加， 目前主要研究项目中的动物外科设施 正在进行或计划与新的 生物医学研究大楼将容纳150名活跃的CWRU教师研究人员 (and除心脏、肺和肝脏外，还涉及心导管插入术 该项目寻求财政援助， 扩大ARC核心手术室设备的基本项目 设施。其中包括手术台，气体麻醉机， 监测能力和动物CCU单元。 该机构的近期目标是获得AAALAC的全面认证， 所有的动物设施和动物护理计划，并完成其 房屋扩建工程，并尽快全面投入运作， 缓解CWRU目前的动物住房短缺。 学校坚定地致力于有新的扩展， 其动物设施符合最高的住房标准， 动物生存手术该机构的长期目标是 仅仅是为了能够容纳（在不妥协的质量设施）所有 实验动物种属（研究者要求的数量） 这是必不可少的研究计划，其教师，并提供一个 一流的生存（和急性）手术核心设施，将 大大减少动物生命的损失后，复杂的 外科手术由研究的苛刻目标决定 程序.

The purpose of this animal resource improvement project is to provide the planned expansions to the animal housing area and the core surgical facility of the CWRU Animal Resource Center (ARC) with major items of basic equipment essential to ensure the high level of animal care and support appropriate to the caliber of the research programs using these facilities while meeting or exceeding all PHS, USDA and AAALAC standards. In anticipation of a dramatic increase in the demand for sophisticated animal surgical facilities arising from major research programs currently under way or planned in conjunction with the construction of a new Biomedical Research Building to house 150 active CWRU faculty researchers (and involving cardiac catheterization in addition to heart, lung and liver transplants), this project seeks financial assistance in obtaining several basic items of operating room equipment for the expanded ARC core surgical facility. These include, operating tables, gas anesthesia machines with monitoring capabilities and animal CCU units. The institution's immediate goal is to obtain full AAALAC accreditation for all its animal facilities and animal care program and to complete its housing expansion and bring it into full operation as soon as possible to relieve the present animal housing shortage at CWRU. The School is firmly committed to the goal of having the new extensions to its animal facilities meet the highest possible standards for housing and for animal survival surgery. The long-term goals of the institution are simply to be able to house (in facilities of uncompromising quality) all species of laboratory animals (in the numbers required by investigators) that are essential to the research programs of its faculty and to provide a first rate core facility for survival (and acute) surgery that will significantly minimize the loss of animal life following the complex surgical procedures dictated by the demanding goals of the research programs.