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Dear Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,

I understand that after two decades, Tech University Health Science Center has not purchased cats for research from Odessa, Texas Animal Control this year. I hope TTUHSC has joined over 90 percent of U.S. and Canadian facilities that use simulated models for medical training courses.

I am surprised that TTUHSC relies upon old-fashioned animal experiments in the first place. Please permanently replace animal labs with synthetic models like simulators and manikins.

Though human focused tools yield data more relevant to people, TTUHSC courses have featured a drill in which students drive plastic tubes down windpipes of cats, causing them to bleed or swell. Constant intubation can scar throat tissue and lead to collapsed lungs or death.

Cats have also undergone a procedure that pumps air into their chest cavities. Trainees try to extract the surplus air via an inserted needle.

Animal-free learning methods cut overhead to confine, feed and destroy cats. A timely New England Journal of Medicine article highlights the "very detailed feedback and more subtle measurement of trainee performance" gained from virtual reality simulators. The article concludes that inanimate models are "safe, reproducible, readily available, and cost- effective."

Moreover, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association, agencies that sponsor most pediatric life-support courses nationwide, do not promote animal use. They advocate synthetic models that give students an accurate depiction of human, not feline, anatomy.

Please let me know if TTUHSC has, in fact, replaced live cat use in medical training with superior and humane non- animal technologies.

Thank you,

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mary.croyle@ttuhsc.edu, danette.baker@ttuhsc.edu, john.baldwin@ttuhsc.edu, steven.berk@ttuhsc.edu, ent.hance@ttu.edu, james.heavner@ttuhsc.edu, rial.rolfe@ttuhsc.edu, iacuc@ttu.edu

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Mary Croyle, Managing Director, Communications-Marketing 3601 4th Street Stop 6235 Lubbock, TX 79430-0002 ph: 806-743-2143 ext. 227 email: mary.croyle@ttuhsc.edu Danette Baker, Associate Director, Communications-Marketing 3601 4th Street Stop 6235 Lubbock, TX 79430 ph: 806-743-2143 email: danette.baker@ttuhsc.edu John Charles Baldwin, M.D. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, HSC 3601 4th Street Stop 6258 Lubbock, TX 79430 ph: 806-743-2900, 806-743-2370 email: john.baldwin@ttuhsc.edu Steven Lee Berk, Academic Dean Texas Tech University 3601 4th Street, Stop 6207 Lubbock, TX 79430 ph: 806-743-3000 ext. 4106 email: steven.berk@ttuhsc.edu

Kent Hance, Chancellor Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 ph: 806-742-0012 email: kent.hance@ttu.edu Professor James E. Heavner Anesthesiology Department LBK GENL 3601 4th Street Stop 8182 Lubbock, TX 79430 ph: 806-743-2916 ext. 258 email: james.heavner@ttuhsc.edu Professor Rial Dewitt Rolfe Vice President, Academic Services LBK 3601 4th Street Stop 6298 / Lubbock, TX 79430 ph: 806-743-2905 email: rial.rolfe@ttuhsc.edu SOURCE: info.ttu.edu/ Texas Tech University, Animal Care Services Box 43132 / Lubbock, TX 79409 ph: 806-742-3722 ext. 286 IACUC coordinator: iacuc@ttu.edu SOURCE: www.depts.ttu.edu/iacuc/Submissions.php

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