TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance of fast-absorbable suture and histo-glue in closing incisions in Brown trout
AU - Jepsen, Niels
AU - Larsen, Martin Hage
AU - Aarestrup, Kim
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Telemetry has become a standard tool in fish research, but tagging methods still need refinement to achieve better results and to improve animal welfare. One of the problems reported from evaluations of surgical implants is unsatisfactory wound closure. Thus, researchers struggle to find better ways to close incisions, typically for implants of tags under field conditions. Problems are regularly encountered when closing incisions with traditional absorbable or non-absorbable suture, including decreased growth, slow wound healing, erythema and necrosis at sutures. In this study, survival, growth, tag expulsion rate and incision healing was compared among three groups of dummy transmitter-tagged wild brown trout Salmo trutta where incisions were closed with two types of suture material (absorbable vs. fast absorbable) and Histo-glue. The tagged fish were kept in semi-natural ponds for 20 days. Survival did not differ between groups, but growth of the tagged fish was lower than that of the control group. Histo-glue gave the best healing, but resulted in high tag loss rate (33%). The fast absorbable suture did not disappear faster than normal absorbable suture, healing and tag loss was similar. The use of fast absorbable suture may hold potential for improving the procedure and should be further tested
AB - Telemetry has become a standard tool in fish research, but tagging methods still need refinement to achieve better results and to improve animal welfare. One of the problems reported from evaluations of surgical implants is unsatisfactory wound closure. Thus, researchers struggle to find better ways to close incisions, typically for implants of tags under field conditions. Problems are regularly encountered when closing incisions with traditional absorbable or non-absorbable suture, including decreased growth, slow wound healing, erythema and necrosis at sutures. In this study, survival, growth, tag expulsion rate and incision healing was compared among three groups of dummy transmitter-tagged wild brown trout Salmo trutta where incisions were closed with two types of suture material (absorbable vs. fast absorbable) and Histo-glue. The tagged fish were kept in semi-natural ponds for 20 days. Survival did not differ between groups, but growth of the tagged fish was lower than that of the control group. Histo-glue gave the best healing, but resulted in high tag loss rate (33%). The fast absorbable suture did not disappear faster than normal absorbable suture, healing and tag loss was similar. The use of fast absorbable suture may hold potential for improving the procedure and should be further tested
U2 - 10.1080/00028487.2017.1370016
DO - 10.1080/00028487.2017.1370016
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0002-8487
VL - 146
SP - 1233
EP - 1237
JO - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
JF - Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
ER -