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RACS ASC 2024

Opportunities and challenges of burn reconstruction in an Austere situation: Bangladesh experience

Invited Paper

Invited Paper

4:50 pm

08 May 2024

Conway 4

BURNS RECONSTRUCTION - CHALLENGES AND TECHNIQUES

Disciplines

Burn Surgery

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Presentation Description

Burn is so devastating. As a densely populated country like ours, incidence of burn is increasing. Initially flame burn and scald was common but now, incidence of high voltage electric burn increases drastically. In burn, initially we fight for life, then soft tissue coverage and finally rehabilitation and back to life. Reconstruction is always challenging specially in high voltage electric burn injury. Multiple operations, prolonged hospital stay, loss of tendon and nerve and even loss of the limb make their life miserable. Very often patients come back with non functioning limb which demands tendon and nerve reconstruction, splinting and physiotherapy to make the limb functioning and rehabilitate to near normal life.

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