Advanced Wound Management
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Wounds may fail to heal because tension, infection, hematoma or seroma formation, ischemia, molestation, pressure, motion, foreign materials, neoplasia, drugs (corticosteroids, neoplasia), radiation, severe malnutrition, or underlying metabolic disease. When wounds fail to heal, the veterinarian should examine and treat the animal for underlying disease, culture a punch biopsy of the wound to evaluate for infection and determine sensitivity, and apply local wound management techniques to encourage development of a healthy wound bed that can either be left to heal by second intention or closed primarily.
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