This research evaluates the action of the Galium Arsenide laser (904 nm) in feline cutaneous surgical wounds. We used 63 animals divided in 3 groups: A - radiated with 4J/cm2 , B - radiated with 2J/cm2 and C - control, not radiated. The aplication of the laser was accomplished in only one session in the immediate pos-operative procedures just after elective ovariohisterectomy. The macroscopical and microscopical analyses (Hematoxilin and Eosin) of the skin were performed in 2, 4, 8 and 15 days pos-operatively. As result we obtained clinical and microscopical increase in the radiated wounds compared with control group and the energy densitie 2J/cm2 was more efficient than 4J/cm2 . Therefore we believe that the laser device can be used as coadjuvant in the healing process of skin wounds, in addition to optimizing the evolution of first intention post-surgery skin wounds in the studied species and circunstances.
Healing; Laser; Skin; Domestic cat. GaAs (Galium Arsenide)
