Chemical Immobilization of Animals
Safe-Capture Chemical Immobilization Workshop
September 19-20, 2008
Weld County Sheriff's Office
Greeley, CO
This program will extensively cover immobilization techniques in species commonly encountered by: Law Enforcement, Animal and Rabies Control, Humane and Animal Rescue Personnel including: Feral Dogs, Feral Cats, Escaped Domestic Livestock, Urban Wildlife, and Exotic Animals.
--also including "in shelter" techniques for less distressful animal handling & pre-euthanasia applications, as well as techniques for rapid, safe, and quiet incapacitation of guard dogs.
Detailed presentation outlines, instructor information, printable registration forms and electronic registration are available on our website.
Our training program is presented over a 2 day period. It consists of 14 hours of multimedia/ lecture/ PowerPoint/ video presentation, followed by 2 hours of "Hands On" training where participants are divided into small groups and are taught how to safely use blowguns, long range projectors, darts, human protective safety equipment, and dart associated radio-tracking devices.
Topics to be discussed will include:
- Custom drug combinations and formulations which minimize induction times--the time from dart impact until the animal is immobilized. (Dr. Amass has drug combinations and techniques that will safely and rapidly limit the escape potential of most animals within 64 seconds to 3.5 minutes).
- Proper injection sites to ensure rapid drug absorption and effects
- Capture strategies to minimize capture stress on the animal, and procedural stress of the officer
- Advantages and disadvantages of the various commercially available darting systems
- Techniques for sighting in dart projectors to ensure accurate, atraumatic dart delivery
- Techniques and modifications which are necessary to have field accuracy and consistent results with currently manufactured darting systems and radiotracking devices.
- Species specific and scenario specific drug and dosage recommendations
- Dosage calculation
- How to re-dose animals incompletely immobilized on approach
- Where to obtain and how to use "superconcentrated" drugs which give you a faster knockdown, and allow you to use smaller, less traumatic darts
- Post immobilization care of animals
- Medical Monitoring: Assessment techniques to ensure the immobilized animal stays physiologically stable throughout the procedure
- Medical Emergencies associated with capture and handling: How to prevent, recognize, and treat: capture myopathy, shock, hyperthermia, hypothermia, seizures, and other complications which can be avoided and managed in association with immobilization
- Accidental human exposure to immobilizing medications: Which drugs are dangerous to humans? What can you expect with accidental human exposure? Standard Operating Procedures to prevent human exposure to immobilizing drugs. How to coordinate with your physician and local poison control to develop protocols should an accidental exposure occur.
Hands-On Lab will include:
* Safe Handling and Use of Immobilization Darts: Assembly, loading, unloading, and cleaning of the various brands available in the US.
* Use of Safety Equipment for Prevention of Accidental Exposure to Anesthetic Drugs
* Safe Handling and Use of Short and Long Range Projectors including: CO2, Air, Nitrogen, and 22 blank powered projectors
* Practice and Development of Proficiency with Pole Syringes
* Practice and Development of Proficiency with Blowgun Delivery of Anesthetic Darts
* Practice and Development of Proficiency with Radio-Tracking Darts.
Our program has been presented since 1989, and is considered by US government agencies to be the standard in Chemical Immobilization training. We have provided training to well over 7,000 professionals in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Canada.
We provide evaluation questionnaires to course participants asking for ratings of Excellent, Good, Satisfactory or Disappointing. Over 90% of participants have rated our program excellent! The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, and Oregon State University have granted our program 1 academic credit.
We do not sell equipment, nor do we have contracts with equipment manufacturers. We provide only education in Chemical Immobilization and field assistance, and our recommendations for drugs and equipment stem from practical field use. Our instructors are Veterinarians specializing in remote anesthesia. They are internationally recognized experts, who are friendly, experienced, easy to talk to, welcome questions, and have the answers you need. This is the most complete, up to date training program available on Chemical Immobilization, presented in an easy to understand manner, applicable to all experience levels.
This is a completely revised and updated program. The all new 100+ page manual:
"Chemical Immobilization of Animals: Technical Field Notes 2008" will be distributed at this workshop!
Certificates are awarded to those satisfactorily completing the program.
Cost for this workshop is $575 for early registration and $625 for general registration. Those who have attended our workshop previously may attend again as a refresher for $350.
For more information contact:
Safe-Capture International, Inc.
PO Box 206
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin 53572
Tel: 608-767-3071
FAX: 608-767-3072
E-Mail: safecaptur@aol.com
Web: www.safecapture.com
