Canine and feline wound healing

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Understanding the complexities of wound healing in dogs and cats is crucial for delivering the best veterinary care. In this Fetch Kansas City conference interview, Natalie Marks, DVM, CVJ, CCFP, Elite FFCP-V, provides listeners an insightful breakdown of each stage in the wound healing process for both canine and feline patients. Marks also provides some tips as to what veterinary professionals can look out for in the case of something abnormal happening with their patient based on their healing wounds.

Below is a partial transcript

Natalie Marks DVM, CVJ, CCFP, Elite FFCP-V: The first is hemostasis, and as it sounds, we need that wound to be able to stop bleeding and so the formation of a clot with platelet aggregation and thrombin is very important. If we have wounds that do not display rapid wound clotting, then we start worrying about clotting disorders. So that's one of the sort of the key tip offs if we've got something abnormal going on.

The second is more of an inflammatory phase, and that's where the body does what it does normally so well, which is to send in this fluid mixture of inflammatory cells and different cytokine and chemotactic factors, to draw in what's necessary to clean up debris, bacteria, sort of its natural flushing state, essentially and to start telling the body, 'hey, this is a wound, and we need to create some scaffolding so that new cells can start to come once that happens.'