Soft tissue cover is essential to the restoration of function and aesthetics of the any part of the body following injury, tumour excision, burns etc. Following the success of part 1 of this webinar, which focused on the non-microsurgical options, we present the second part which will focus on the microsurgical options of soft tissue cover of the fingertips, hand, and forearm.
By the end of this webinar participants should be able to:
- Apply the basics or principles of microsurgery / indications for free tissue transfer
- Gain insights into the setting up, challenges and maintenance of an effective microsurgery service (including training)
- Apply the indications to the harvest of ‘workhorse’ free flaps in hand trauma
- Develop a strategy for choosing common options of free tissue transfer to different parts of the hand — fingers, palm, dorsum
- Understand the challenges of free tissue transfer and develop local algorithms to overcome them.
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