Clinical usefulness of infrared thermography to detect sick animals: frequent and current cases

Author:

Mota-Rojas Daniel1ORCID,Martínez-Burnes Julio2ORCID,Casas-Alvarado Alejandro1ORCID,Gómez-Prado Jocelyn1ORCID,Hernández-Ávalos Ismael3ORCID,Domínguez-Oliva Adriana1ORCID,Lezama-García Karina1ORCID,Jacome-Romero Joseline1,Rodríguez-González Daniela1ORCID,Pereira Alfredo M.F.4ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Address:Neurophysiology, Behavior and Animal Welfare Assessment, DPAA, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM),Unidad Xochimilco, 04960, Mexico City, Mexico.

2. Animal Health Group, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Victoria City, 87000 Tamaulipas, Mexico.

3. Department of Biological Science, FESC, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 54714, Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico, Mexico.

4. Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture,Environment and Development (MED), Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal.

Abstract

Abstract Infrared thermography (IRT) is a tool that has been studied extensively in the experimental medical field as a method for assessing surface thermal responses under various conditions. These may involve local inflammatory processes resulting from surgical procedures, wounds, neoplasms, pathologies, painful events, or stressful states in animals. IRT measures changes in blood flow in surface blood capillaries and the resulting heat radiation. In the clinical field, thermography has been used as a support method for detecting painful conditions. However, some guidelines indicate that it could be applied for assessing and monitoring animals in rehabilitation to quantify objectively possible improvements in their quality of life. Similarly, it has been observed that IRT makes it possible to assess the degree of circulation in dermal tissue, suggesting that it could be used to determine the degree of damage in traumatized tissue in cases of thromboembolic diseases and burns. This would be useful to distinguish between damaged and healthy tissue and thus determine the optimal therapy for burn patients. This review aims to analyze scientific evidence on the clinical applications of IRT for detecting diseases and assessing painful conditions. A literature search on different databases was performed to recover articles related to the application of IRT as a complementary diagnostic tool, as well as its potential for assisting in rehabilitation, monitoring wounds, and evaluating body temperature in domestic animals.

Publisher

CABI Publishing

Subject

Nature and Landscape Conservation,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Veterinary

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