Intramuscular Injections in Small Mammals

Date: December 7, 2011; updated September 4, 2020

By: Christal Pollock, DVM, DABVP (Avian Practice)

Keywords: , , ,

Categories: Mammals,  Rabbit, 

In exotic companion mammals, intramuscular injections are primarily given in the large muscles of the rear legs or the epaxial muscles. This review article features a brief video illustrating epaxial muscle injection as well as a discussion of potential complications and a step-by-step description of injections into both thigh and epaxial musculature . . .

To continue you need to be a LafeberVet.com member. (Français), (Español)

Pour continuer, vous devez être un membre LafeberVet.com

Para continuar, debe ser miembro de LafeberVet.com

Already a LafeberVet Member?

Please Login

References

  1. Banks RE, Sharp JM, Doss SD, Vanderford DA. Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry.

  2. Batchelder M, Keller LS, Sauer MB, West WL. Basic experimental methods in gerbils. In: Stevens KA, Suckow MA, Wilson RP (eds). The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents. Waltham, MA: Elsevier Science; 2012: 1143.

  3. Bencivenga MA, Bowling PA, Fiallos JO, et al. Investigation of various intramuscular volumes delivered to the semimembranosus muscle of Cavia porcellus. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 59(3):310-321, 2020. doi:10.30802/AALAS-JAALAS-19-000101.

  4. Gehling AM, Kuszpit K, Bailey EJ, et al. Evaluation of volume of intramuscular injection into the caudal thigh muscles of female and male BALB/c mice (Mus musculus). J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci 57(1):35-43, 2018. PMID: 29402350. 

  5. Graham J, Mader DR. Basic approach to veterinary care. In: Quesenberry KE, Carpenter JW (eds). Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 3rd ed. St Louis: Saunders, 2012. pp. 179-180.

  6. Hrapkiewicz K, Colby LA, Denison P. Clinical Laboratory Animal Medicine: An Introduction. Ames, IA: Wiley Blackwell; 2013: 117, 175-176, 204, 234.

  7. Hoppes S. Medicine and diseases of sugar gliders. Proc Annu Conf Southwest Veterinary Symposium 2016.

  8. Hsu CC, Briscoe JA, Keffer AB. Basic experimental methods in the chinchilla. In: Stevens KA, Suckow MA, Wilson RP (eds). The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents. Waltham, MA: Elsevier Science; 2012: 989.

  9. Johnson DH. Prairie dog medicine and surgery. Proc Annu Western Veterinary Conference. 2004.

  10. Johnson-Delaney C. Sugar gliders. In: Quesenberry KE, Orcutt CJ, Mans C, Carpenter JW (eds). Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 4th ed. St Louis: Saunders, 2020. p. 391.

  11. Lennox AM, Bauck L. Basic anatomy, physiology, husbandry, and clinical techniques. In: Quesenberry KE, Carpenter JW (eds). Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 3rd ed. St Louis: Saunders, 2012. p. 351.

  12. Meredith A, Keeble E, Richardson J.  Rabbit Medicine and Surgery Self Assessment Color Review, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group; 2016: p. 154

  13. Newcastle University with the support of the IAT and the NC3Rs. Intramuscular injection in the rat. Procedures With Care web site. Available at http://www.procedureswithcare.org.uk/intramuscular-injection-in-the-rat/. Accessed Sep 4, 2020.

  14. Pekow CA. Basic experimental methods in the rabbit. In: Stevens KA, Suckow MA, Wilson RP (eds). The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents. Waltham, MA: Elsevier Science; 2012: 253.

 

 

Further reading

Hill WA, Boyd KL, Ober CP, Farrar PL, Mandrell TD. Posterior paresis and osteolysis in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) secondary to Freund’s adjuvant immunization. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 42(5):53-56, 2006. PMID:  16542045.

To cite this page:

Pollock C. Intramuscular injections in small mammals. September 4. 2020. LafeberVet Web site. Available at https://lafeber.com/vet/intramuscular-injections-in-the-rabbit/