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if you look at the pics I posted, he basically looked like that with a sterile 'burn' sheet covering the stump...it's alread
y dirty so just trying to keep it from getting much dirtier...LOL
really doesn't make much difference...
ONE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE: this happened on a farm and farms around the world have one thing in common, animal waste....you MUST use appropriate antibiotics to cover this, i.e., a penicillin or derivative, without fail or the infection will only get worse despite being on other antibiotics
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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