Electrocardiography of Laboratory Animals

Jeffrey W. Richig, DVM is CEO of ECGVET, LLC and Special Government Employee consultant to the FDA for the cardiovascular and renal drugs division. He has over twenty-five years of experience in electrocardiography for pre-clinical safety evaluation studies and is known as a leading expert in the field. Meg Sleeper, VMD, graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school in 1993. She is an associate professor of cardiology and served as section chief from 2001 to 2011. Dr. Sleeper has published over 70 peer-reviewed original papers, more than 50 review papers or case reports, and authored 4 books. She has lectured at numerous prestigious conferences, including the American Heart Association and the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, and has coordinated the small animal cardiology section at the AVMA conference since 2009. Dr. Sleeper has trained 18 veterinary cardiologists and joined the University of Florida veterinary school faculty in 2015. She serves on the editorial or review boards of 11 journals and has contributed to the Great Ape Heart Project since 2011, focusing on improving cardiac health in ape species.

"…this book might be beneficial to ECG neophytes, veterinary and laboratory technicians who are involved in performing ECGs, and veterinary and graduate students." --Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 15-Sep-14"There are a number of normal variants in the electrocardiograms of common laboratory animals, say Richig and Sleeper, and if researchers know what is normal for the particular species they are working with, they can avoid excluding those individuals which are within these normal variant ranges." --ProtoView.com, April 2014

• INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY IN PRECLINICAL SAFETY CHAPTER 2: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHYCHAPTER 3: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY OF DOGS CHAPTER 4: HANDLING AND RESTRAINT OF NON-HUMAN PRIMATES (CYNOMOLGUS MONKEYS, RHESUS, & CHIMPANZEES)CHAPTER 5: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY OF NON-HUMAN PRIMATES (CYNOMOLGUS MONKEYS, RHESUS, & CHIMPANZEES)CHAPTER 6: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY OF MINIPIGS CHAPTER 7: TELEMETRY IN PRECLINICAL SAFETY STUDIES CHAPTER 8: PR(PQ), QRS, QT AND OTHER ISSUES CHAPTER 9: SELF ASSESSMENT INDEX