Clinical use of different biomaterials for cutaneous wound healing in veterinary practice

R V Suresh Kumar

: J Bioengineer & Biomedical Sci

Abstract :

Wound management in veterinary patients needs special attention since the success depends on type, severity, location duration of wound and species of the animal. Various etiological factors like extensive trauma, infections, burns, automobile accidents and extensive loss of tissue pose a challenging situation to a veterinary surgeon. conditions which were refractory to routine suturing and treatment needs Biomaterials, /biological dressings / skin substitutes for management of different types wounds like surgical wounds, bleeding wounds, septic wounds, chronic wounds, ulcerated wounds, maggotted wounds. scientists used different agents combinations biomaterials like for better wound healing viz., amniotic membrane, fibrin, collagen, chitosan-gelatin, fibrin-bioactive glass ceramics and fibrin-gelatin with mixed results.Considering that different materials (fibrin collagen, fish scales collagen, banana cellulose etc) were used on wounds and efficacy was assessed based on clinical, gross. Physiological, hematological, biochemical, and histological studies. The same were compared with routine wound treatment procedures. Results were analyzed for the wound healing accelerating properties of biomaterials to study the feasibility of use of these materials safely.

Biography :

Dr.R.V Suresh kumar has completed UG , PG , PhD in Veterinary Science with specialization of surgery and Radiology securing university First position in entrance examination, MVSc and PhD with gold medals from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural university Hyderabad , A.P., India. He has joined as Veterinary Assistant surgeon in A P State government and served for 3 years 8 months later on joined as Assistant professor in 1998 and presently working as Associate Professor and Head dept of surgery and radiology .He has published more than 150 Research, clinical and popular articles in national and international journals. He is serving as a referee for different reputed journals in the field of veterinary surgery and radiology. He received best paper awards and gold medals three times in National conferences. He has guided 1Ph.d and 14 MVSc students as Major Advisor 28 members as Minor advisor (pathology. Clinical medicine, anatomy, pharmacology, gynecology) and presently is guiding 1 Ph.D student and 2 MVSc students. He is member of institutional committees of five universities, and acting as paper setter and external examiner for different universities .his area of interest is advanced diagnostic techniques, oncology, and biomaterials.