Management of Open Injuries: What has changed?
Journal Title: TRAUMA INTERNATIONAL - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Introduction: Open injuries pose a major problem to the treating surgeon as they are prone to higher rates of infection and non-union and are usually associated with life threatening polytrauma. Nowadays, specialized trauma centres and a multimodal team approach have shown to give superior results in the outcome following open injuries. Early wound debridement, early fracture stabilization and early wound closure are important components as nowadays we focus on the ‘Era of functional restoration’. Serum Lactate is a widely used biochemical marker to assess the adequacy of tissue resuscitation and the Ganga Hospital Open Injury score (GHOIS) has a higher specificity towards limb salvage and also gives guidelines regarding timing and type of soft tissue reconstruction. A combined ‘Orthoplastic’ approach in the management of open injuries and adherence to the ‘Revised reconstruction ladder’ with regarding to wound coverage has shown to a favourable outcome.
Authors and Affiliations
Devendra Agraharam, Arun Kamal C, Raja Bhaskara Rajasekaran, Vel Murugesan P Vel Murugesan P, Ramesh Perumal, Dheenadhayalan J Dheenadhayalan J
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