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How to Provide Superior Wound Care Treatment

BioSIS wound dressing photolarge copyAny veterinarian worth their salt knows that providing superior wound care treatment starts with assessing the overall stability of the animal. Once the patient is stable, the next step is administering first aid for the wound as soon as safely possible. Your treatment should follow the fundamentals of debridement, infection or inflammation control, and moisture balance. Success depends on taking the correct approach and deciding whether to manage the wound as open or closed.

Before considering surgery, veterinarians looking for a more effective wound treatment should explore Healion Amniotic Matrix. The solution is an easy-to-use, sterilized powder that promotes the healing of wound sites.

Provide Superior Wound Care with Healion Wound Matrix

When choosing wound care solutions for your patients, protecting the wound sight from further contamination and trauma is often a top concern. This is where Healion Wound Matrix can help, especially in situations where a wound cannot or should not be closed. Healion is a decellularized amniotic membrane supplied in fine, dry, sterilized white powder form for veterinary use. It leverages the natural healing properties of amnion to modulate inflammation and create an environment conducive to rapid cell migration. All you must do is puff the solution onto the wound bed and cover it with a non-adherent bandage.

Once administered, and as we touched on at the beginning of this post, it’s advised you consider the following four things while caring for your wound patient:

  1. Giving the wound proper support
  2. Maintaining proper moisture levels
  3. Mitigating infection risk
  4. The phases of wound healing

If these four factors aren’t considered when bandaging and monitoring your patient, you might not see the healing you expect. (Remember pain management throughout the phases of recovery, too.)

Healion Wound Matrix serves as a wound care solution where open wound management or delayed wound closure is the best course of action for the patient. Healion is uniquely designed to enable veterinarians to provide superior wound care treatment and is indicated for the management of wounds, including:

 

  • Partial wounds
  • Full-thickness wounds
  • Surgical wounds
  • Trauma wounds
  • Draining wounds

Do You Want to Provide Superior Wound Care Treatment?

It’s time to join top veterinarians using the best regenerative wound care technology and provide your patients with faster and more effective treatment options. Healion Wound Matrix provides an ideal healing environment and flexibility in treating both acute and chronic wounds, and it’s affordable.

Healion is cost-effective and packaged to fit procedural needs. Learn about Healion Wound Matrix pricing (available in 6-pack, 12-pack, and 24-pack options).

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Common Skin Graft Procedures and How Vetrix Technology Can Help

Veterinary Neurology Vetrix

When a patient has a wound that’s too big to close on its own or a wound that becomes chronic and doesn’t heal by itself, treatment with a skin graft may be beneficial in obtaining wound closure. Skin grafts help quickly and effectively restore function and provide better cosmetic results than other treatment options. Additionally, skin grafts protect from infections and parasites. The Vetrix BioSIS Technology we provide is a regenerative medicine beneficial in remodeling, regrowing, and repairing wounds encountered in the veterinary field.

Two Common Skin Graft Procedures in Veterinary Medicine

When it comes to common household pets, veterinarians are often most likely to perform one of the following types of skin grafts when necessary for wound treatment:

  • Total Skin Graft (or Full-thickness skin graft): This skin graft includes the epidermis and dermis. It involves removing a piece of skin and the fat from the underside of the skin. This grafting procedure requires the donor site to have enough surrounding loose skin so the incision can be closed.
  • Partial Thickness Skin Graft (or Split-thickness skin graft): This skin graft involves shaving a thin layer of skin, 0.2 to 0.4mm, off the donor site. The cutting plane of this graft remains above the hair follicles so that no hair will grow from this skin graft. The donor site will heal independently and doesn’t require closure, but it may be more painful than a total skin graft because the exposed nerve endings will need time to heal. It’s typically used in burn victims with limited normal skin for grafting.

Veterinarians will guide their patients on the best skin graft option for their particular wound.

Treating Skin Grafts With Regenerative Veterinary Medicine

Once it’s been determined that a pet needs a skin graft to heal a wound, consider a regenerative medicine solution as part of your treatment. Unlike synthetic materials or other biological grafts, Vetrix Technology provides a structure for healthy tissue to grow across and incorporate into the extracellular matrix, resulting in wholly remodeled, vital, and fully vascularized tissues. During the healing process, Vetrix BioSIS is replaced with the body’s native tissue, developing into a permanent repair without the long-term presence of a foreign body. After healing is complete, patients are left with healthy, natural tissue.

BioSIS is a great regenerative medicine solution for skin grafts because it facilitates angiogenesis and rapid remodeling, allowing the body’s defense mechanisms to react and respond to any potential infection. It promotes safe and sterile healing of the wound.

Download the BioSIS Informational Brochure to learn more about this technology and how it can aid in healing skin graft patients.

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Dr. Herrington- August’s Featured Case

August 2018

This months’ case comes to us from Dr. Mike Herrington DVM. He leverages Healion, Vetrix’s amnion wound particulate to close a mass removal.

Dr. Herrington practices at Englewood Animal Health Center in Englewood, FL. Read below to learn why he used Healion and his results utilizing this technology.

Case background: “Gracie is a 6yr old F/S Boxer mix who presented for removal of about a 1.5cm dermal mass on the dorsal mid shaft R forelimb. The mass removal was the easy part, but closure was difficult. The mass was directly over the cephalic vein, so I did not want to leave it open. I had to undermine completely around the circumference of the leg and make about 2 dozen mesh incisions, as well subQ anchors just to get the skin apposed. Even so it was tight, so I splinted it and applied a modified Robert Jones bandage. I performed daily wet-dry bandage changes, using Entederm (nystatin-neomycin-triamcinolone) ointment, mainly for the anti-inflammatory properties. The skin just didn’t stretch as much as I was hoping, and the cephalic vein was being compressed, so her foot became edematous and the skin around the incision is showing some focalized necrosis. On April 7th I made 2 releasing incisions under bupivicaine, taking great care to leave the cephalic vein covered. I was able to massage a good amount of the edema out. I replaced the splint & bandage, this time switching to silvadene cream. She is also on carprofen and cephalexin orally BID.” – Dr. Herrington

Initial Healion Application

Healion was initially applied on 4/11/18, 8 days after surgery, to the releasing incision sites. Gracie got her bandage off 3 days later and licked the Healion off the wound.

Reapplying Healion

Healion was reapplied per suggestion from Vetrix on 4/16/18. No further complications occurred.

4 Days Post Second Application

Healing proceeded well, a healthy granulation bed formed by 4/19/18. The splint was removed from the bandage on 4/20/18 (4 days post Healion application), with Gracie able to fully bear weight on the affected leg.

5/4/2018 (18 Days post Healion application)

Bandaging was maintained to protect the healing wound.

5/14/2018 (28 days post Healion application)

Epithelialization proceeded well, and was complete on 5/14/18. Carprofen and cephalexin therapy was maintained until 5/14/18.

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