Injections in hand surgery

Injections in hand surgery

Introduction Injection is an essential procedure in medicine, let alone in hand surgery. It entails the insertion of a sharp pointed hollow needle into the body for 2 reasons. Firstly, to retrieve tissue samples from the body and secondly, for the delivery of substances into the body. Injection is thus meant for either diagnostic, therapeutic or both purposes. Injection provides the hand surgeo...

Transfer of Sensory Branches of Radial Nerve in Hand Surgery

One of the main principles in hand surgery is the restitution of sensation in fingers which seems hard or impossible in extensive hand traumas especially in war injuries. In this article transfer of sensory branch of radial nerve to sensory branch of median (in 25 cases) and to sensory branch of ulnar nerve (for the first time in literature and in 12 cases) is reported. Operative technics and r...

Amputation in hand surgery.

P. C. Leung, MBBS, MS, FRACS, FRACS(E) Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatic Surgery Faculty of Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories Hong Kong When referring to amputation, the immediate association tends to be amputation related to trauma. There is little doubt that injury is by far the commonest cause of amputation, but one must not forget that babies might al...

Anesthesia in Hand Surgery

Local Anesthesia is performed via drugs administrated subcutaneously for narcotizing small areas (finger, small skin cuts etc.). With this method, patient relaxation is provided through intravenous relaxing drugs. It is simple, easy to apply and less risky method. It is the best method for managing the pain in small surgical procedures. The patient may be discharged just after the operation. Th...

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