![]() ![]() In addition to fish bandages, Peyton and the team used acupuncture, chiropractic treatment, and cold-laser therapy on the animals on days they had to be anesthetized for standard care. Watch: Rescued Bear With Amputated Paws Learns to Walk Again They're still functional, but they don't have the collagen needed to help repair the skin, so the vets have to switch them out. The wraps are good for about 10 days, but after that they turn leathery. ![]() "It's pretty straightforward," Peyton says. The amount of fish skin they had to use varied, but generally one bear paw takes about one or two skins. After anesthetizing the bears and cougar and prepping them for surgery, Peyton and her team of veterinarians cut pieces of tilapia skin to fit over the animals' charred flesh. Once they skinned the fish and ate the meat (as to not waste it), they sterilized the skin for several days, modeling the same cold sterilization protocol that's used for skin grafts on people. Peyton and her husband visited the local fish market to buy live tilapia. Due to restrictions, tilapia bandages can't be shipped outside the country, so the U.S. The vets knew that fish skin has been used in Brazil to treat human burn victims, so Peyton's Portuguese-speaking colleague called up a doctor there. (Related: " First Brain Surgery Performed on Bear") Vets can't wrap the injured paws in cloth bandages either, because if the animals chew on their bandages-which they inevitably do-the cloth can block their intestines. Putting pain pills in their food isn't terribly effective, because there's a chance they might not eat them. (" See How Vets Removed a Melon-Size Tongue From a Rescued Bear") But the animals can only go under so many times, and sedating them too frequently can risk their health. For normal operations, they have to be sedated for safety reasons. We’re very proud to have made this award possible and reaffirmed our commitment to encouraging the medical community to create more projects that will improve patient care and care for life,” said Roberta Junqueira, commercial director at Eurofarma, sponsor of the Euro Award.Injured or not, bears and cougars are dangerous animals. Eurofarma’s constant support for innovation and projects that bring concrete benefits to Brazilian society’s quality of life is a fundamental part of its DNA. “In an atypical year like this, because of the coronavirus pandemic, we want to highlight the good things that are happening. We’re finalizing the negotiation process so that a company can register the product with ANVISA (National Health Surveillance Agency), and then produce and market it at a large scale, even for use in the international market,” Dr Maciel told Eurofarma. Brazil has never had animal skin to treat burned and injured patients, and the products we’re studying and developing are exported by our country at a high cost, thus often not reaching the poorest parts of the population. The project has shown the versatility of tilapia skin as a new biomaterial with multiple applications. The doctor has been studying the use of tilapia skin in burn treatment since 2014, and has been expanding studies in several other medical-surgical specialties. Eurofarma’s Euro Innovation in Health award was presented to Dr Edmar Maciel last week, for a project entitled “Tilapia Skin: A New Biomaterial for Treating Burns, Wounds, Gynecological Surgeries, and Regenerative Medicine.”ĭr Maciel beat off stiff competition from the 1,654 other projects that were submitted after the votes from 15,000 physicians were counted. ![]()
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