Unbelieveable And Tragic

[Catlady711]

Just read about that myself on a different webpage.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...nstration.html

It had a little more information.


"The Animal Welfare Act sets minimum standards of care for dogs and other warm-blooded animals but does not prohibit their use in medical device demonstrations, the USDA said.

An aneurysm is an abnormal bulge in a blood vessel, which can burst and cause severe damage or death. The medical device that was demonstrated fills a brain aneurysm with a coil to stop bleeding.

In a letter to the USDA, the clinic said the hospital's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee had approved the aneurysm being induced in the dog but not the use of the device on the animal.

The clinic allows testing on dogs for medical education and research and used 340 canines for research in 2005, according to USDA documents."

[lizbud]

In a letter to the USDA, the clinic said the hospital's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee had approved the aneurysm being induced in the dog but not the use of the device on the animal.



What's the point of inducing the injury & prohibiting the device? I don't
understand any of this BS.




The clinic allows testing on dogs for medical education and research and used 340 canines for research in 2005, according to USDA documents."[/I]

[pitc9]

[buttercup132]

DITTO

[BC_MoM]

Whatta world.

[RICHARD]

Having dealt with salespeople from a bunch of med device companies I can tell you that they are the ones behind it.


They are scum sucking bessturds who will do anything to get a product/device into a med center/operating arena.


They are the ones that probably talked the idiot into using the dog.


Most of the sales reps have no souls and would sell their mothers to get a contract with a large hospital

[Catlady711]

Having dealt with salespeople from a bunch of med device companies I can tell you that they are the ones behind it.


They are scum sucking bessturds who will do anything to get a product/device into a med center/operating arena.


They are the ones that probably talked the idiot into using the dog.


Most of the sales reps have no souls and would sell their mothers to get a contract with a large hospital

What you missed in the article is that while the use of the device was unathorized, the hospital had already given the go ahead on giving the dog the aneurysm in the first place. Kinda makes you wonder though why approve one but not the other since either way it was gonna be a dead dog.