A 25-year-old surgical intern accidentally amputated part of his own thumb while cooking. He managed to control the bleeding and reattached the severed piece at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, choosing not to go to the emergency department.
A surgical intern who accidentally amputated part of his own thumb with a kitchen knife successfully reattached the missing piece at home because he didn’t want to go to the emergency department.
READ MORE: Meta fined €91 million by Irish Data Protection Commission over major password breach affecting millionsTwo days later, the surgical intern inspected the wound to decide whether or not the piece that had been cut off his thumb should be discarded. However, he noticed that it contained a layer of skin that appeared viable, and granulation tissue was forming, suggesting that it was healing.
The case report was co-authored by the patient himself, and it noted that there were no previous reports of simple trimming of dead skin from the edges of amputated flesh to enhance graft take.
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