A case report of the treatment and care of decubitus ulcers in macaques with spinal cord injury

Decubitus ulcers are a common spinal cord injury (SCI) complication that puts patients' lives in danger and has emerged as a more prevalent issue in modern clinical rehabilitation and care. Decubitus ulcers in humans can currently be treated in a number of different ways, but there are fewer studies on how to treat and care for decubitus ulcers in macaques. To treat a 20‐year‐old adult male macaque monkey with SCI and decubitus ulcers after a quarter transection of the thoracic spinal cord, a number of scientific care procedures and pharmaceutical treatments, such as dietary changes and topical or intravenous administration of medication, were carried out and continuously monitored in real‐time. In comparison to the untreated group, we observed a significant improvement in decubitus wound healing in the macaques. In this article, we provide a good protocol for decubitus ulcer care after SCI and suggest that future experimental animal modeling needs to focus on issues such as care for postoperative complications. Decubitus ulcers, also known as pressure ulcers, are a condition that results in skin tissue ulceration and necrosis mainly due to long‐term compression of local tissues in the patient's body, followed by ischemia and hypoxia situations due to insufficient blood supply, and is a complication of spinal cord injury disease that endangers patients' lives and has become a more common problem in the development of clinical rehabilitation treatment and nursing care today. At present, there are few reports on the treatment and care of decubitus ulcers in rhesus macaques. We conducted a series of scientific care and pharmacological treatment of a case of decubitus ulcers arising from spinal cord injury in rhesus macaques, with continuous real‐time observation, and achieved satisfactory results.