Sentences with phrase «euthanasia by injection of»

While many shelters practice humane euthanasia by injection of approved drugs, some still use the gas chamber.

In concert with humane organizations and veterinary associations across North America, Humane Canada considers euthanasia by injection of sodium pentobarbital to be the preferred method.

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By contrast, medical ethicists remain divided about active euthanasia, in which a physician ends a patient's life intentionally and directly: for example, by means of a lethal injectioBy contrast, medical ethicists remain divided about active euthanasia, in which a physician ends a patient's life intentionally and directly: for example, by means of a lethal injectioby means of a lethal injection.

They will be put to death by lethal injection, the customary method of euthanasia at the county's shelter.

The central problem of animal sheltering today is that even the best and most progressive shelters still do harm to animals, by employing lethal injection outside the bounds of true euthanasia as an expedient to resolve certain problematic situations.

They each spoke from experience about the suffering and danger caused by use of the gas chambers and the much safer, humane method of euthanasia, lethal injection.

Also,  a cost study of euthanasia in North Carolina shelters establishes euthanasia by injection is not only safer for workers and humane for animals, it is cheaper. (The study is attached below for downloading.)

The AVMA has stated humane euthanasia by lethal injection is the preferred method of killling shelter animals.

In a quiet and comfortable environment, euthanasia is performed by a veterinarian with the injection of an anesthetic overdose into a vein through a IV catheter.

The new law makes sodium pentobarbital injection, also known as euthanasia by injection (EBI), the state's only approved method of euthanasia for dogs and cats in shelters.

The National Animal Control Association (NACA) issued the following policy statement in September, 2010: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»

By comparison, the use of euthanasia by injection causes animals to lose consciousness and brain function before their vital organs shut down, decreasing suffering and resulting in rapid clinical deatBy comparison, the use of euthanasia by injection causes animals to lose consciousness and brain function before their vital organs shut down, decreasing suffering and resulting in rapid clinical deatby injection causes animals to lose consciousness and brain function before their vital organs shut down, decreasing suffering and resulting in rapid clinical death.

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The veterinarian will start the euthanasia by giving an injection of a sedative and pain reliever.

Washington only permits euthanasia of shelter animals by injection of sodium pentobarbital.

New York (would mandate euthanasia by injection or EBI), Pennsylvania (would also ban chloroform, ether, halothan, fluothane, or similar substance when used in an airtight chamber or plastic bag, North Carolina (would mandate EBI), Georgia (EBI mandated already for dogs and cats and bill would close loopholes that allow many counties to continue to use CO gas; the bill would allow heartstick only if the animal is unconscious, heavily sedated or comatose), West Virginia (would ban new Co gas chambers), New Mexico, Louisiana (would ban CO chambers for dogs and cats and also ban heartstick unless the «animal is unconscious or rendered completely unconscious and insensitive to pain through the injection of an anesthetic») and Michigan (would also ban CO2).

Texas law allows only two methods of killing shelter animals: (1) humane euthanasia by lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital administered by a trained employee out of the sight and away from other animals in a quiet area.

Euthanasia is most often accomplished for pets by injection of a death - inducing drug.

Instead, the commission unanimously approved a motion by Commissioner Fred McClure that recognizes lethal injection as the preferred method of euthanasia that should be used whenever possible.

In veterinary practice, euthanasia is accomplished by the intravenous injection of a concentrated dose of anesthetic.

The Humane Society of the United States, the Association of Shelter Veterinarians, the National Animal Control Association, and all other national animal welfare organizations agree that direct injection of approved euthanasia drugs (referred to as Euthanasia by Injection, or EBI), by which the animal quickly loses consciousness without experiencing pain or distress, is the most humane method of euthanasia currently ainjection of approved euthanasia drugs (referred to as Euthanasia by Injection, or EBI), by which the animal quickly loses consciousness without experiencing pain or distress, is the most humane method of euthanasia currently euthanasia drugs (referred to as Euthanasia by Injection, or EBI), by which the animal quickly loses consciousness without experiencing pain or distress, is the most humane method of euthanasia currently Euthanasia by Injection, or EBI), by which the animal quickly loses consciousness without experiencing pain or distress, is the most humane method of euthanasia currently aInjection, or EBI), by which the animal quickly loses consciousness without experiencing pain or distress, is the most humane method of euthanasia currently euthanasia currently available.

Euthanasia by injection (EBI), using a lethal dose of a barbituate, emerged in the 1960s; today, all major animal welfare organizations, including The HSUS, National Animal Care & Control Association and Association of Shelter Veterinarians, as well as the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), recognize it as the most humane form of eEuthanasia by injection (EBI), using a lethal dose of a barbituate, emerged in the 1960s; today, all major animal welfare organizations, including The HSUS, National Animal Care & Control Association and Association of Shelter Veterinarians, as well as the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), recognize it as the most humane form of euthanasiaeuthanasia.

For the next several decades, community animal control services would be assumed by humane groups, with the emphasis on improving shelter conditions and developing more «humane» methods of euthanasia, such as electric shock, gas and decompression chambers, and finally, lethal injection.

Instead, the accepted means of euthanasia will be sodium pentobarbital injection (also called euthanasia by injection or EBI).

In general, euthanasia should be carried out by a vet through lethal injection or, more rarely, overdose of gaseous anaesthetic.

The AVMA's new direction is more in line with the National Animal Control Association (NACA) which in September 2010, issued the following policy statement: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»