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Nasty Wound
Tuesday 1st November 2011
This horse came in with a very large chest wound after being involved in an accident. However, when the horse arrived at ACE the wound was a few days old and had been sutured elsewhere with string! Needless to say, when the horse arrived the area was incredibly swollen and infected, with a lot of dead skin, as the blood supply had been damaged. Our ACE vets got to work immediately and had to remove all the necrotic tissue and leave ‘an open wound’ to heal. The horse was hospitalised and received antibiotics and anti-inflammatories.
Pictured below is Jonathon Dixon, a British volunteer vet visiting ACE, debriding the wound, ensuring only healthy viable tissue remains.
This is the wound after only a couple of weeks!!
