PROBLEMATIC ISSUES OF LIMB AMPUTATION IN WOUNDED WITH COMBAT TRAUMA

Author:

Trutyak IhorORCID,Malickii VasylORCID,Samotowka MichaelORCID,Trunkvalter VasylORCID,Trutyak RomanORCID,Ivaschenko VitalijORCID

Abstract

Among the wounded with limb injuries admitted to the Military Medical Center of the Western region during the year of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, 29% had a mine-blast injury, 47% had shrapnel wounds, 8% had gunshot bullet wounds, 1.5% – thermal injuries, and14.5% – traumatic injuries. Upper limbs were injured in 22%, lower – in 32%, 15% had two limbs injured, and 31% had combined combat trauma. In all hospitalized with multi-fragment fractures, limbs were fixed with external fixation devices. 2% of patients had vascular damage. All wounded had unhealed wounds with a soft tissue defect. The average age of patients was 30 years. There were no comorbid diseases in the wounded, and concomitant diseases that did not affect the course of injury were found in 10%. Amputations of limbs were performed in 6.5%. Traumatic separation of a limb segment or its destruction with crushed bone and non-viable soft tissues, nerve damage with significant defect, soft tissue and bone defect, as well as thermal ischemia of the limb for more than 6 hours with necrosis of its soft tissues, were indications for primary limb amputation in 3% of wounded and injured, which were in the nature of primary debridement. Progressive wound infection with the development of the septic condition of the wounded despite intensive treatment, total ischemic necrosis, and recrudescent arrosive bleeding from great vessels required a secondary limb amputation in 1.5%. In 1.5% of the wounded, staged operations were performed as re-amputations. Re-amputation had to be performed in 0.6% of patients with an inappropriate limb stump level, which complicated prosthetics. To reduce the number of amputations for secondary indications, a timely diagnosis is needed of compartment syndrome and rational treatment of soft tissue wounds and gunshot fractures with surgical and medical prevention of the infectious process.

Publisher

Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University

Subject

Molecular Medicine,General Medicine

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