1. Role of high ligation in high tension electric burn.
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Toor, Sumit, Jain, Sumit, Singla, Chetan, and Bhatti, Deepak John
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ELECTRICAL burns , *VOLTAGE , *ELECTRICAL injuries , *BURN patients ,WESTERN countries - Abstract
Electric burns constitute 4%-6.5% of all burn cases in the western world and 24.49% in India (1,2). High tension burns often requires limbs amputations, the amputation rate reported in high-tension electrical burn injuries ranges from 10% to 68% (2). Amputations of a limb in electric burn patients require special consideration of high ligation of vessels because of progressive necrosis due to vascular injury and prolonged production of thromboxane with electric burns. High ligation of vessels significantly decreases the secondary haemorrhage chances. We do routinely perform high ligation in all cases of hightension electric burn requiring limb amputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022