Young wildlife rehabilitation records of a North-West Italy centre (CANC)

CANC (Centro Animali Non Convenzionali) is a ward of the Ospedale Veterinario Universitario of the Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie dedicated exclusively to wild and exotic animals. It is active from 2010 and every year it deals with more than 4000 patients of different ages, species, and pathologies, divided in about 3000 wild subjects and 1000 that have an owner. From 2012, a management information system (MIS) and an electronic medical record (EMR) were activated and, in all these years, data of about 15,622 hospitalized subjects were collected. The EMR ensures a better data administration and, at the same time, helps veterinary and student in diagnosis and feeding management of these very peculiar animals. The most critical patients are surely newborns and very young wild subjects because they have the same management and clinical issues of the adult-ones and the additional troubles due to the young age; the aim of this paper is to refer the CANC's results.