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My patient returns from the hospital after placement of an external fixator but is still bleeding from a couple of pin sites. Nurse Jamie and I take him to a treatment room to clean him up when the power goes out. Four of us cleaned up the blood and/or held cell phone flashlights to get this guy cleaned up. Triage!
This image was taken the day before Gabriel got home from the small animal hospital here in Glasgow.... He has a broken front left leg... with both bones broken so he has an external fixator holding the bones together. He's been up today to have his dressings changed as he has infection where the bone had broken through the skin..... This was him after 12 days... looking very bright and coping so remarkably well with what had happened to him :o))
He was in the park running at speed, he caught his foot in a hole..... the leg remained static and he tumbled over himself.... thanks to the quick thinking and help of a vet nurse (who is now studying to be a vet) who was in the park at the time.... it was her actions that certainly helped him to keep his leg.....
Peace and quiet is the order of the day.... it's great to have him home and I'm sure he is happy to be here though he has quite a fan club up at the hospital :o))
Texture by skeletalmess.... which just suits Gabriel perfectly.... so a big thanks to him :o))
I hope everyone is well and life is good to you xx
Sorry Fickrians and Flickrinas - I forgot to mention I had broken my ankle. There was too much swelling to put pins and plates in to set my ankle, so the surgeon used this external fixator to hold my ankle in place for a couple of weeks.
I stayed at Regency Place of Castleton for 2 weeks before the second surgery, and again for about 10 days after the second surgery. They took very very good care of me. :)
Believe it or not, there wasn't a lot of pain around the pins in my shin or the pin through my heel.
I learned a lot about gravity that day, my friend. ;)
Originally set up to treat Iraqi civilian victims of violence, this MSF project has expanded to include patients from Yemen, Syria and other countries who cannot get suitable treatment at home.
The left hand bulge on Malik's stomach is a tissue expander: a plastic ball that stretches his skin so that it can be harvested to repair his wounds on other parts of his body. Just one of the advanced techniques used by the orthopoedic and plastic surgeons. The project is the subject of a forthcoming Newsnight, BBC2 report by Caroline Hawley, produced by Vara Szajkowski which I filmed and edited
Last night, the apparatus holding Janice's fractured bones together slipped apart, causing her some pain and great alarm among the professional staff at the nursing home. So today, I took her to the office of her surgeon. He entered the examination room, pulling wrenches from his lab coat!
Later, he sent Janice for more x-rays. She fell asleep on the table as we waited for them to be developed.
The good news is that the staples were removed from her incision today; here, you see steri-stips where the staples had been.
The Borg implant (a Star Trek reference) on her arm should be removed, mid-October.
so that's what that looks like.
FUN FACT: it's possible to lift my entire leg by using those rods as handles. it doesn't hurt but it feels weird like fingernails on a chalkboard. any tapping on the rods or the pins resonates down to the bones.
Janice is no longer at the acute level of care, so she must leave the hospital. Yet, bringing her home would be flirting with disaster. She's not yet steady on her feet and the external fixator, anchored to the bones in her arm, would make any bump or fall a painful experience.
So, we spent the day, along with a case manager, looking for a nursing home.
We finally found one that met all the requirements (especially for insurance). Appropriately, it's in Behthlehem, PA. I'll drive her there tomorrow. That's where she will receive the occupational therapy that will train her to dress and feed herself, as well as the physical therapy that'll bring her toward stronger walking.
We're expecting her stay in Bethlehem to last about a week.
this is for my friend Swami Stream, he posted items his wife had in her arm, this is what I had in my arm when I broke my wrist in 2001. those four screws were drilled into my bones and the bar kept my wrist from moving while it healed, I expected a normal cast, but when I woke up this is what I had!
Day 44. The temporary pot was removed in theatre this morning and this temporary metal work inserted instead. Believe it or not - it's more comfortable than the plaster was!
this is for my friend Swami Stream, he posted items his wife had in her arm, this is what I had in my arm when I broke my wrist in 2001. those four screws were drilled into my bones and the bar kept my wrist from moving while it healed, I expected a normal cast, but when I woke up this is what I had!
there were problems with the vacuum pump again tonight so we had to open up the dressing, and took the opportunity for a comparison shot. good things we can see in this photo are that new skin has developed over a significant portion of the edges of the wound, the incision healed well, the periosteum is no longer exposed, and a lot of the old peeling skin has sloughed off. the black tissue at the posterior tip of the wound is still a big concern for me though. it's not the same as the dark purplish areas at the anterior edges where new skin has covered the wound site.
from now on, no experimenting with this vacuum dressing. every time a nurse comes they want to try something new with how they apply the dressing, and every time that leads to leaks, low pressure, and blockages. from here on out i'm going to make sure they stick to the only method that's been proven to work every time we've used it. with that black tissue there i can't risk any more time where it's not getting the proper vacuum pressure. if the black tissue dies it'll have to be cut away again, and that puts us back almost to square one with this wound.
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
This surgery was supposed to be less painful and it has been worse. The staff here at DePaul are inattentive and the local pain pump in my foot inexplicably stops working- sending me into agony. i am not happy.
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY
Joint Distraction Surgery
Osteoarthritis Treatment
Summer 2011
External Fixator
In-bone Pins, Femur-to-Tibia
Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen
New York, NY