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!! 
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Nasty wound
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!!
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!! 
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4 comments:
O dear, poor horse! I'm studying veterinary medicine, and always thought I will want work on small animals. But maybe if I work on horses, I can also come and help one day to treat those for whom help is not guaranteed otherwise.
Great job guys!
Hi Karen,
We also have small animals coming to the clinic, not just horses and donkeys. Not as many but enough to keep someone with a small animal interest busy!
Feel free to come and volunteer as a student (in clinical years ideally) or once you've graduated.
Zofia a previous ACE volunteer vet!
Great, just a few more years until clinic, and then hopefully I can come and help!
WOW! That wound is so large. The healing is amazing. Good vet care along w rest and good food does work wonders.
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