At Kent Scientific, our goal is to provide the best research solutions to serve our customers, and to make them as easy and efficient to use as possible.
Because it’s often much more effective to show a process or procedure visually than to describe it verbally, we’re creating videos to provide answers to some of the most common questions we receive on our support lines. We also plan to explore topics of interest to researchers in our community from recommended animal handling, to selecting the proper technology for specific applications.
The first of these videos—Connecting the Tubing on SomnoSuite—is now posted in our video library and our YouTube channel.
You’ll learn how to:
- Install the activated charcoal gas canister
- Connect the induction chamber tubing between the vaporizer and the induction chamber
- Secure the clamps to direct proper anesthesia flow
- Attach the anesthesia mask to the animal
Keep checking back—we’ll be adding more videos in the near future, on a wide range of topics including:
- Filling the SomnoSuite syringe
- The benefits of low-flow anesthesia
- Proper animal handling to improve research results
- Simplifying mouse intubation procedures
- The significance of animal warming
- And much more!
Have an idea for a video? We’d love to hear it—please post your idea in the comments below.
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