The treatment of post-burn scars and contractures at the locomotorum

Department of Burns, Clinical Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, Al VIII-lea Congres Naţional de Ortopedie și Traumatologie cu participare internaţională 12-14 octombrie 2016Introduction. Historically, survival was the only gauge of success in managing those with serious burns. Survival is no doubt the immediate concern; it is the restoration to pre-injury status, and social return becomes important for the victim and the treating team. An extensive burn is the most devastating injury a person can sustain and yet hope to survive. More recently, the overriding objective of all aspects of burn care has become the reintegration of the patient into his or her home and community. This objective has extended the traditional role of the burn care team to well beyond completion of acute wound closure. The 3 broad aspects of this effort are rehabilitation, reconstruction, and reintegration. Materials and methods. Different principles of the surgical treatment were implemented in the practical activity thorough various plastic methods. The research includes a lot consisting of 386 patients with post-burn sequels in the locomotors system. Patients were divided into 3 groups according to the location of their lesions: upper limb and axillary region (n=192); trunk and neck (n=88); lower limb and perineum (n=106). Results. Various surgical procedures were applied: Excision and plasty through advancement-53 (13,7%) cases; Excision and plasty with expanded flaps-102 (26,4%) cases; Incision or scar excision and grafting-93 (24,1%) cases; Excision and plasty by rearrangement-89 (23,1%) cases; Excision and combined plasty-32 (8,3%)cases; Vascularized flap plasty method-17 (5,9%)cases. Conclusion. According to our data scarring sequelae of post-combustion limited locomotor function in 56,3% cases, involving predominately the upper limbs (48,3%). Data from the study show that the post-combustion surgical rehabilitation of scarring sequelae of locomotor medical biological process is difficult, with gradual improvement in 47,9 % of cases. Surgical treatment has ensured both the functional and aesthetic recovery

Oсобенности ожогового сепсиса

Spitalul Clinic de Traumatologie şi OrtopedieSepsis is one of the most serious problems encountered amongst patients with extensive burns, which complicates the disease in some cases even causing the death. This article presents the improvement of treatment of patients with extensive thermal injury complicated by sepsis.Одной из серьезных проблем лечения пациентов с обширными ожогами является сепсис, усложняющий течение болезни, в некоторых случаях c летальным исходом. В работе изложены принципы лечения больных с обширной термической травмой, осложненной сепсисом