COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SILVERCONTAINING DRESSING MATERIALS FROM DIFFERENT MANUFACTURERS IN TREATMENT OF INFECTED WOUNDS

Abstract

Topicality. Researches in the field of surmounting resistance mechanisms require considerable financial investments and fall behind dynamics of resistance formation in microorganisms. Antiseptic properties of silver make it possible to use it as anti-infection agent. Objective: to estimate effectiveness of silver-containing dressing materials (from different manufacturers) used in veterinary to treat infected wounds. Material and methods. The study encompassed 21 animals (dogs) with wounds with different etiology (traumatic, pressure sores from fixing splints, scalping-type) on distal parts of limbs. The wounds were contaminated with microflora without apparent abscess. Normal skin microbiota provided the causative agents: S. epidermidis and S. Pseudointermedius. Clinical presentations, type, size and location of wounds, transitory complications, treatment progress, as well as breed, sexual, and age-specific characteristics of animals were recorded in the treatment protocols. Three specimens of dressing material were tested; all were silver-containing antimicrobial dressings from different producers (Silvercel, UK; Atrauman AG, Germany; and dressing with nanostructural silver coating, FSImmanuil Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia) applied to wound treated with anti-infection agent (chlorhexidine). Findings. Relatively similar curative effect of silver-containing dressings by different manufacturers leads to conclusion that Russian dressing material is the most economically advantageous in terms of optimum cost/quality ratio.