I have a patient who had a failed mesh placement and a panniculectomy and who has developed at least three separate fistulas with a very large amount of output (3-4 L/24 hrs). Any suggestions? I am using an Eakin wound management pouch hooked up to wall suction.
“It’s Gettysburg”….
- Mon, 3/15/10 - 9:01am
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Dr. John Macdonald arrived 2 days after the earthquake. With more than 10.5 million
people affected (240,000 died in the first hours), considering population and country size, it is believed to be the greatest, recorded, natural disaster in history.
In the hastily created University of Miami tent hospital, in the first hours, we had 7 physicians, no nurses, and minimal medical supplies for 150 + patients — men, women, and children, many sudden orphans. Without the most basic of medical supplies, our small team, collectively, was overcome by a feeling of worthlessness. As we moved fro
