Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Using medical ozone to help heal cat skin wounds
By Oros, Nicuşor-Valentin et al.·Published in Animals·2023·Department of Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania·View original on Crossref →
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Original publication title: Clinical Evaluation of Medical Ozone Use in Domestic Feline Cutaneous Wounds—A Short Case Series
- Species:
- cat
Plain-English summary
Seven cats with various skin wounds were treated with medical ozone to help their healing process. The cats received ozone in different ways, including through bagging the wounds and using ozonated saline. The wounds were monitored weekly, and the results showed that the ozone treatment helped improve healing. This suggests that medical ozone could be a beneficial option for treating skin wounds in cats.
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Abstract
Support and management of second-intention wound healing involves frequent dressing changes having different properties. Dressings can range from simple ones, such as nonadherent dressings, to more complex options, such as foam, hydrocolloid, alginate or negative pressure dressings. Seven cats were enrolled in the study with a total of nine wounds of various sizes with different etiology sizes and localizations. Three methods of local ozone administration were used to cover more of the ozone properties in the treatment of wounds: bagging, perilesional subcutaneous infiltrations and lavages with ozonated saline. Evaluation of the healing process was performed by clinical observation and wound area measurements every seven days until the complete recovery of the patients. The results of this study should encourage clinicians to consider medical ozone as a new therapeutic approach with regenerative properties in the second-intention healing of cats presenting cutaneous wounds.
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Search related cases →Original publication on Crossref: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13172796