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I'm pretty sure they've done this for decades. I seem to remember someone using potato skins like 30 years ago.
> I'm pretty sure they've done this for decades […] Yes, the article you read is from 2017.
This has been going for long enough that there's been several metastudies debunking it. Was hyped in the news around 2017. Fish skin or silver sulfadiazine had similar effects and to me are both approximating placebo from the studies I read. The fish does nothing for pain and no difference in the scarring time vs the silver ointments.
From one day to the next it started showing positive effects and a week and a half later I was fine. I was kicking myself for waiting so long.
Title needs (2017)
This article is from 2017 - maybe should say so in the submission title? Still, an interesting read
In my hospital we have ample experience with another technique using polypropylene sheets for defect coverage, popularized in Brazil orthopedics as "Figueiredo's technique", which is in practice an extension of common techinques for temporary closure of abdominal wall ("Bogota's bag"). We put a transparent polypropylene sheet as skin replacement, suture it directly to the skin. We can monitor the wound and its secret…
I thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestingly, they too used tilapia fish skin, and not any of the more common local fish species. I wonder if there is something special about tilapia fish skin, or it was simply the species on which the technique was developed, and nobody bothered…
I'm not surprised, a lot of vets I know from Iraq and Afghanistan had used Tilapias for battlefield dressing. Worst case there was a Tilapia MRE people kept around for this purpose. Honestly it's great to see them taking those skills from war and translating them into helping street animals such as cats.