In preclinical research, animal welfare is a major foundation for relevant and high-quality data. Due to limited technology features in biomedical research, animal welfare can be impaired leading to poor-quality and irrelevant scientific data. Therefore, there is a growing interest in developing new technologies that are able to deliver satisfactory outcomes for both ethical and scientific needs in widely used species in biomedical research such as rats.
DECRO is the next generation telemetric device to monitor cardiac and respiratory function, specifically designed for small animals. DECRO is composed of a unique connected jacket embedding respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) sensors and protecting the ECG electrodes, a high-performance Bluetooth emitter and a plug & play, small footprint acquisition server, on which is executed LASA, our proprietary software.