Diagnóstico y seguimiento termográfico de electrocución y fractura de radio en un águila imperial ibérica (aquila adalberti)

Abstract

Thermography was applied in diagnosis and monitoring of electrocution and radial fracture in a young female of Spanish imperial eagle, one of the most threatened species of bird of prey in the world. This technique is very advantageous in wildlife because requires no contact. The peripheral vascular damage caused by the input and output of electric current and the radial fracture inflammation were detected by thermography. To get the ossification of the fracture, this one had to be immobilized for three weeks. The minor use of the injured wing produced patagium tendon fibrosis, thermographically visible for the increase of temperature. The patient evolution was monitoring by thermography until its complete recuperation, after what it was released.