First Contact Management of Traumatic Hand Injuries
Main Article Content
Abstract
Performing a comprehensive history and physical examination is the first stage in treating any hand injury. This includes finding out the mechanism and timing of the injury, hand dominance, tetanus status, the patient's occupation, and baseline function. It is critical that the primary care physician oversee initial care in order to promote prompt healing and reduce long-term morbidity. It's crucial to identify injuries that need to be sent to hand surgeons as away. To enable prompt therapy of such an accident, direct phone communication between the on-call hand surgeon and the primary care physician is crucial.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
References
I. Keller, M. M., & Jordaan, P. W. (2022). Traumatic hand injury management and outcomes: A case report. South African Family Practice, 64(1), 5479.
II. Li, X., Cui, J., Maharjan, S., Yu, X., Lu, L., & Gong, X. (2016). Neo-digit functional reconstruction of mutilating hand injury using transplantation of multiple composite tissue flaps. Medicine, 95(27).
III. Hobday, D., Welman, T., Horwitz, M. D., & Pahal, G. S. (Eds.). (2022). Plastic Surgery for Trauma: The Essential Survival Guide. CRC Press.
IV. Heras-Palou, C. (2010). Hand injuries. In Medicolegal Reporting in Orthopaedic Trauma (pp. 209-231). Churchill Livingstone.
V. Koh, S. H., You, Y., Kim, Y. W., Kim, J. S., Lee, D. C., Roh, S. Y., ... & Hong, M. K. (2019). Long-term outcomes of nail bed reconstruction. Archives of Plastic Surgery, 46(06), 580-588.
VI. Richert, B., Haneke, E., Zook, E. G., & Baran, R. (2019). Nail surgery. Baran & Dawber's Diseases of the Nails and their Management, 825-895.
VII. Ding, X. (2019). Replantation of Amputated Finger. Microsurgical Orthopedics, 53-73.
VIII. Elliot, D., Adani, R., Hyun Woo, S., & Tang, J. B. (2018). Repair of soft tissue defects in finger, thumb and forearm: less invasive methods with similar outcomes. Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), 43(10), 1019-1029.
IX. Giunta, R. E. (2003). Local flaps in hand surgery. European Surgery, 35(3), 148-156.
X. Will, R., & Lubahn, J. (2010). Complications of open trigger finger release. The Journal of hand surgery, 35(4), 594-596.
XI. WilsonJones, N., & Laing, H. (2006). Acute injuries to the flexor and extensor tendons of the hand. Surgery-Oxford International Edition, 24(12), 441-445.
XII. Shortt, A. (2012). Orthopaedics–regional. 250 Textbooks.
XIII. Venkatramani, H., Varadharajan, V., Bhardwaj, P., Vallurupalli, A., & Sabapathy, S. R. (2019). Flexor tendon injuries. Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma, 10(5), 853-861.