View Animal Details (Animal record) and recording the death of an animal – SensaLab Help Center

You can access an animal record to view the details of an animal and to report the death of an animal

Use the following available methods to access the Animal Details (View Animal record)

Table: Methods to access the animal details

Tap on the Tabs to switch between screens displaying additional animal details

On Screen Actions (Tap)
1	Back Arrow	Returns you to the previous screen used to enter the View animal Details (Animal Record) screen
2	Tabs: General, Genetics, Study, Location,	Switch between tabs to view details of the animal. The General tab is displayed as the first screen
3	Report Death	Changes the Life Status of the animal to Dead and captures the Reason and Date of Death (Available in the General Tab for Alive animals)

Table: On Screen Actions on Animal Details Screen

Figure: Animal Record View

The details displayed in the animal record view are the fields used to identify an animal in a lab.

Fields may appear blank if there is no information available for the field in SensaLab Study.
The complete animal record is only available in SensaLab Study.

Field Label	Displayed Content	Tab Displayed
Description		General
Digitail Tag™	The most recent associated Digitail™ code associated to the record	General
Visual ID	Visual Id Type and identification code of the animal The Field Label is Replaced by the Field Value when this field is filled	General
Unique ID	Unique ID each animal record is given by Ai.Study	General
Age	Animal’s Age in the format Years, Months, Weeks, Days	General
Date of Birth	Animal’s Date of Birth	General
Date of Death *For animals which have been Recorded as Dead*	Animal’s Date of Death	General
Strain	Animal’s strain / model name	Genetics
Line	Animal’s line / genetic name	Genetics
Genotype	Animal’s genotype	Genetics
Phenotype	Animal’s phenotype	Genetics
Container	Cage name in which the animal is housed	Location
Rack	Rack name in which the cage is located	Location
Room	Room name in which the rack is located	Location
Building	Building name in which the room is located	Location
Facility	Name of the facility which the building is within	Location
Organization	Name of organization which the facility is under	Location
Study	The study to which the animal is enrolled	Study
Phase	The phase of the study which to which the animal is currently enrolled	Study
Experiment	The experiment within a study phase to which the animal is currently enrolled	Study
Contacts	Contact of the Principal Investigator and Study Creator of the Study in which the animal is currently enrolled. May include additional Contacts if provided	Study

Table: Animal Details Fields

Record animal death

You can use Ai.Connect to record an animal’s death

Go to your selected Animal Record Details (Animal Details) using either the Scan or Find animal

In the General Tab, tap Report death to capture details of the animal’s death and update its life status from Alive to Dead.

Figure Animal Record: General Tab - Report death button

Figure: Report death of animal

Tap Date of death to display an on-screen calendar.
Tap to select a Date of the animal’s death.

Figure: Date of death on screen calendar

Tap Reason for death and select the reason of the animal’s death from the displayed list.

Figure: Report death - Reason for death field

Figure: Reason for death - Select Reason

Tap Save and update the Life Status of the animal in the animal record.

Figure: Update the animal record with the Reported Death

To view the updated animal Record Tap Done.

To record another animal death, Tap New animal.

This will return you to the list of animal records (Find animal) or Scan Screen which you used to select the current animal record.

Figure: Animal record update successful

The animal record will now display the Date of death in place of the Report death button.

Figure: Updated animal record displaying Date of death

View Contact Details of a Study

If an animal is enrolled in a Study, you can view the contact details of the Study Team.

Go to your selected animal record details (Animal Details) using either the Scan or Find animal

Tap on the Study Tab to display the Study Details.

Figure: Animal record Study tab

Tap Contacts to display the Study Team Contact details.
Swipe Down or Up to display more Contacts (Other) if a vertical scroll is displayed to the right of the screen.

Figure: Contacts with vertical scroll

Record animal death

View Contact Details of a Study

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