Wound healing for small animal practitioners: a refresher – part one

The wound healing process involves four key phases: bleeding, inflammatory, proliferation, and the maturation/remodelling phases (key events are outlined in Table 1). These phases are often assumed to...

Negative pressure wound therapy: application, indications and is there more we could use it for?

NPWT promotes wound healing by delivering negative pressure (a vacuum) at a wound site through an applied dressing. The wound edges are drawn together (Goldsworthy and Mcalinden, 2011), any infectious...