Treatment of Mutilating Hand Injuries: An International Perspective, An Issue of Hand Clinics
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 2016
100 pages
978-0-323-47703-1 (ISBN)
Description
Mutilated hand injuries are one of the most challenging reconstruction problems than can confront hand surgeons. This issue will cover outcome and functional measurement in mutilating hand injuries; skin coverage considerations in a mutilating hand injury; reconstruction of major degloving injuries of the hand; challenges posed by delayed presentation of mutilating hand injuries; and many more articles surrounding this topic.
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Setting the Goals in the Management of Mutilated Injuries of the Hand-Impressions Based on the Ganga Hospital Experience
- Key points
- Introduction
- The goal of management
- Summary
- The Biomechanical Impact of Digital Loss and Fusion Following Trauma: Setting the Patient up for Success
- Key points
- Introduction
- The essentials
- Future directions
- Summary
- Measuring Functional and Patient-Reported Outcomes After Treatment of Mutilating Hand Injuries: A Global Health Approach
- Key points
- Introduction
- Measuring outcomes
- Measurement approaches and techniques
- Validation of patient-reported outcomes
- Applications in research
- Impact and related research
- Summary
- Mutilating Hand Injuries in Children
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Etiology
- Initial evaluation
- Surgical sequence in replantation
- Postoperative care
- Contraindications to replantation
- Alternatives to replantation
- Prognosis
- Secondary procedures
- Burns
- Psychological aspects
- Summary
- Skin Coverage Considerations in a Mutilating Hand Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Flap selection for hand resurfacing
- Dorsal skin coverage
- Volar skin coverage
- Pulp coverage
- Digital skin coverage
- Associated injury
- Summary
- Skeletal Fixation in a Mutilated Hand
- Key points
- Challenges in fracture fixation in mutilated injuries
- Effects of skeletal disruption
- Priorities in skeletal fixation
- Technical aspects
- Segmental bone loss
- Summary
- Primary Thumb Reconstruction in a Mutilated Hand
- Key points
- Introduction
- Terminal defects
- Secondary Thumb Reconstruction in a Mutilated Hand
- Key points
- Background
- Classifications
- Toe transfer
- Trimmed toe
- Wrap around toe
- Second toe
- Multiple toe transfers
- Surgical options: The thumb
- Considerations at the index procedure
- Summary
- Metacarpal-Like and Metacarpal Hand
- Key points
- Introduction
- Metacarpal hand: classification
- Metacarpal-like hand: classification
- Surgical treatment
- Case 1
- Case 2
- Case 3
- Discussion
- Summary
- Secondary Interventions for Mutilating Hand Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Obligatory surgical procedures
- Discretionary surgical procedures
- Summary
- Challenges Posed by Delayed Presentation of Mutilating Hand Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation of the injured hand
- Rehabilitation
- Summary
- Pushing the Boundaries of Salvage in Mutilating Upper Limb Injuries: Techniques in Difficult Situations
- Key points
- Introduction
- Basic principles
- Multilevel amputations in the hand
- Bilateral extensive amputations
- Avascular hand with extensive soft tissue loss in the forearm
- Avascular hand with injury in the proximal part of the hand
- Summary
- Index
