Gruesome injury photo (not for the squeemish).

[Fnaar]

ooyah!

 

[cd365]

I was eating when I opened this

 

[Shadow]

Why was not it stitched up while you were in A&E ?
(I thought this was the entire raison d'etre of A&E or am I missing something obvious).

 

[GrasB]

A&E is to make sure that you don't do further damage & be secondary triage. It may be judged that it's better to wait until the require experts are there to make a better judgement rather than a general doctor doing the required re-constructive work.

When I ended up with a large hole in my arm they basically did enough to stabilise & clean the injury then sent me to a ward. I was in ward until for 18 hours, if I hadn't have needed as much medical attention to keep the wound sterile I would have been sent home. The staff in A&E could have just sown the injury up however this would have had a high probability of losing a lot of function in my arm. The surgeons reconstructed an awful lot more than just the skin on the top.

 

[postman]

Hells bells, all the best from here.

 

[Leodis]

 

[dan_bo]

Snap!

 

[potsy]

Was about to go out earlier without my gloves on, then I remembered this thread

 

[colly]

Gloves.....................should be compulsory.

 

[Sara_H]

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Why was not it stitched up while you were in A&E ?
(I thought this was the entire raison d'etre of A&E or am I missing something obvious).

It needed a specialist hand surgeon apparently. Just heard from the wounded adventurer, he's been in theatre to four hours, there has been some nifty revascularisation and I can pick him up in an hour. Hurrah!

 

[colly]

yak yak snigger snigger

She said........ revascularisation

teehee teehee

 

[Shadow]

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It needed a specialist hand surgeon apparently. Just heard from the wounded adventurer, he's been in theatre to four hours, there has been some nifty revascularisation and I can pick him up in an hour. Hurrah!

Ok. Good news. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

 

[fossyant]

Super news. Now for a spin on the turbo later

 

[theloafer]

Good news Sara_H. Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery

 

[Paulus]

Gloves.....................should be compulsory.

That could start a whole new thread similar to the helmet debate