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.
Feng, J., Fitz, Y., Li, Y., Fernandez, M., Cortes Puch, I., Wang, D., Pazniokas, S., Bucher, B., Cui, X., Solomon, S. B. Catheterization of the Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein to Perform Hemodynamic Measures, Infusions and Blood Sampling in a Conscious Rat Model. J. Vis. Exp. (95), e51881, doi:10.3791/51881 (2015).