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CHILD WARNING Woman opens pregnant belly to save twins

This is the moment a recently deceased woman who decided to enter a hospital in Cameroon had herself cut open with a razor blade in a desperate attempt to save the lives of her unborn twins.

One of the babies was already dead, while the second was alive but died shortly after being removed from the womb.

Horrifying cellphone footage of the procedure - carried out outdoors outside the medical facility - shocked residents of the African country.

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Dudes brain is being eaten out by maggots :marseypuke:

Disgusting as fuck: https://media.giphy.com/media/12Pb87uq0Vwq2c/giphy.webp

also im pretty sure you can see brain :marseybrain:

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2nd degree grease burns
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surgeons remove brain from skull

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A 21-year-old unmarried female, residing in a village in North India, secretly indulged in illegal abortion at 18 weeks of gestation by consuming abortion pills that she had procured from a local pharmacy. Since the fetus was not expelled, she visited a village midwife the next day, who delivered the baby by instrumentation. Few hours later, she had bouts of cough that led to prolapse of intestine from the vaginum. She was taken to a local hospital from where she was referred to our center. The length of prolapsed bowel increased every time she coughed, strained, or got up from lying position. She reached our hospital 12 hours after the abortion in a state of shock with two meters of small bowel protruding from vagina (Figure 1).

Most of the eviscerated bowel was gangrenous and detached from mesentery. She was pale and drowsy, and had blood pressure of 80/50 mm of Hg with a feeble pulse of 120 per minute. The extremities were cold and clammy. Resuscitation with intravenous fluids was followed by an emergency laparotomy. The prolapsed segment (Figure 2) extended from proximal jejunum to distal ileum (30 cm proximal to the ileo-cecal valve). There was no spillage of intestinal contents in the peritoneum, and a 3 x 3 cm defect was present in the posterior uterine wall (Figure 3). The necrotic small bowel (160 cm) was resected and followed by end jejunostomy. The uterus, which was completely viable, was repaired by suturing. Two units of packed red blood cells were transfused during the surgery.

Empirical broad spectrum antibiotics were continued for a week, and oral elemental diet was started on the fourth post-operative day. Rest of the hospital stay was uncomplicated. She underwent a follow-up surgery for stoma closure three months later, and jejunum was anastomosed with the distal ileum.

>part of small bowel that had prolapse from vagina :

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>the site of entry into uterus (arrow) after laparotomy :

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>the prolapsed bowel that was pulled back through the uterine defect was gangrenous and detached from mesentery :

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>resection was done at the junction of gangrenous and viable bowel :

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>the defect seen on the posterior wall (arrow) of uterus :

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711565325270341.webp

>jejunal stoma seen post-operatively :

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711565325411598.webp

https://www.cureus.com/articles/38348-rupture-of-unscarred-uterus-with-intestinal-prolapse-from-vagina-following-criminal-abortion#!/

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CHILD WARNING Decapitation of an infant

Not sure if you all have heard the news about Jessica Ross and how in labor the doctors dislocated her child's head and tried to hide it from her and her family.

Here is some info from a news article:

“Jessica Ross went into labor on July 9, 2023 and her delivery began early on the morning of July 10 at Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, Ga.. During the delivery, the shoulder of the baby, Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., became stuck in the vaginal canal, creating a medical emergency known as shoulder dystocia.

The newborn died during the delivery, and on Tuesday, the Clayton County Medical Examiner's Office ruled that the cause of death was homicide, the result of a complete severing of the baby's upper cervical spine.

The family's attorneys Cory Lynch and Roderick Edmond have previously claimed in a fraud and negligence lawsuit that the attending physician subjected the baby's head to “excessive traction” and failed to perform a C-section in a timely manner, CNN reported at the time.

The hospital staff failed to notify the parents their baby had been decapitated. Rather, on July 13, Willie A. Watkins Funeral home informed both the parents and the medical examiner's office about the state of the remains, three days after Ross and her partner, Treveon Sr., were told their baby had died.

After learning the baby had died, the parents asked to see and hold the baby, before being told they could look at the baby through a glass. What they saw was wrapped the baby and propped up his head, the attorney said, which the parents believe constituted an attempt to conceal what had happened to their child.”

The family got an Autopsy through an independent Dr. and the Dr. has an Instagram page where he will post educational content regarding the autopsies he performs. He since then has posted a picture of this child which is very controversial. He states it is to bring awareness and he is protected by HIPPA. Photo of the post will be nested. What do you all think of him posting this photo? Does this bring awareness? Or is this too much and he showed disregard for the families feelings?

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EFFORTPOST Pectus Excavatum

WHAT IS PECTUS EXCAVATUM??

Medical Definition: a congenital chest wall deformity that is caused by growth abnormality of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the breastbone (sternum).

Non Medical Definition: is a condition in which the person's breastbone is sunken into the chest.

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Another name for this would be "Funnel Chest" and is more common in boys than in girls.

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HOW COMMON IS IT?

About 1 to 8 people per 1,000 have it.

While the sunken breastbone is often noticeable shortly after birth, the severity of pectus excavatum typically worsens during the adolescent growth spurt.

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This is a graph showing the age composition for the condition. As you can see most of the cases range in the 13-18 age group.

Severe cases of pectus excavatum can eventually interfere with the function of the heart and lungs.

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WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?

For many, the biggest symptom is the deformities of the chest. Some other symptoms include the following:

*Shortness of breath with exercise.

*Less stamina compared to peers.

*Fatigue.

*Chest pain.

*Irregular heartbeat.

*Heart palpitations.

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Of course, they could also have some psychological symptoms as well such as:

*Significant embarrassment from the appearance of your chest.

*Self-esteem issues.

*Clinical depression.

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WHAT CAUSES PECTUS EXCAVATUM?

Researches haven't found a specific genetic link, yet. They do suspect there is one though. About 40% to 53% of people with pectus excavatum have a biological family member with the same condition.

Pectus Excavatum is associated with the following:

*Impaired exercise tolerance.

*Mitral valve prolapse (leaky heart valve).

*Compression of your heart.

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HOW DO YOU FIX THIS?

There are actually TWO way's to fix this.

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The Nuss Procedure

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The Ravitch Procedure

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The Nuss Procedure:

This procedure is minimally invasive. Your surgeon would do the following:

*Insert a camera into your chest to guide the procedure.

*Make two small incisions on either side of your chest.

*Insert a custom-curved steel bar(s) under your sternum and position the bar(s) to elevate your sternum.

*Secure the bar to your chest wall on each side to correct the depression.

The bar stays in place for several years. A surgeon removes it in an outpatient (same-day) procedure.

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The Ravitch Procedure:

This is considered the traditional or opened procedure Your surgeon will do the following:

*Make an incision on the front of your chest.

*Remove the overgrown connective tissue that's pushing your sternum backward.

*Pull your sternum forward, away from your heart and lungs, into your chest wall.

*Use a small plate and tiny screws or a small metal bar to stabilize your sternum in its new position.

A surgeon will remove the bar in six to 12 months during a short outpatient procedure. This bar is smaller than the bar they use in the Nuss procedure. You don't need additional surgery because surgeons don't remove the plates.

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COMPLICATIONS OF PROCEDURE:

*Pneumothorax (collapsed lung).

*Bleeding.

*Pleural effusion (fluid around your lung).

*Infection.

*The chest bar moving out of place.

*Pectus excavatum recurrence (happening again) after bar removal.

*Injury to surrounding structures.

*Chronic pain.

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HOW LONG DOES RECOVERY TAKE?

4-6 weeks.

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IS RECOVERY PAINFUL?

Short answer, yes.

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If you have gotten this far and have a few more minute's I can now tell you MY experience with this surgery.

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I ended up getting this procedure done when i was 13 or 14 years old. Just going into High School. Mine was severe enough to get The Ravitch Procedure done. How we knew I needed to get the procedure done was one day at Basketball practice I started having a hard time breathing and started hypervenalating from feeling like i was dying. Went to the doctors who found out that it has started pushing up against my heart and lungs and causing major complications to my everyday life. The surgery went great but the recovery SUCKED! I can only describe it as the most painful thing i have ever experienced. My doctor told me they had to break my sternum and ribs to put in the metal bar. I also had to go through physical therapy to get back to walking. The WORST part was when i ended up getting hiccups and when they had change my bedding. The nurses had to roll me onto one side and then onto the other to remove the sheets. I had to keep the metal bar in for a whole year.

My lasting complications to the surgery is that my right part of my chest from the scar to the top side of my right shoulder blade is numb. Seem's like my procedure also failed because i still have a bit of an incaved chest cavity but nothing major.

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH PECTUS EXCAVATUM

Jeff Goldblum https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17114202791668215.webp

Bo Burnam https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17114202790149581.webp

Joaquin Phoenix https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711420277993964.webp

Neil Patrick Harris https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17114202776169214.webp

Patrick Swayze https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711420277480184.webp

Brendan Fraser https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17114202769854307.webp

Hayden Panettiere https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711420276752697.webp

Tori Spelling https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711420276639553.webp

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17114202764405196.webp

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CHILD WARNING Dicephalic partial twins born at a hospital in Ethiopia.

This is a Dicephalic partial twin birth (Male), where there are two heads shared, in what normally would have been two separate bodies. In this case, incomplete separation has occurred, resulting in one body sharing two heads. This happened in Ethiopia on March 21st 2024, and the child / children are still alive and being monitored in the intensive care unit of Wachamo University Queen Eleni Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hossana.

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This is another cancer post! :marseyrave: Part 3; Treatment.

We talked about breast cancer.

https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/medical/post/143410/this-is-a-cancer-post-marseyrave

We talked about lymphoma.

https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/medical/post/143686/this-is-a-subsequent-cancer-post

Treatments were mentioned in some places; we will talk more about this topic today.

Just keep in mind that waiting for it to go away, crystal healing, meditation or prayers doesn't constitute treatment. Do not go see some quack who is not an oncologist.

Once you got the cancer diagnosis, you need to move fast. There are different options available, and more are developing. You must keep in mind that each of these treatments have some serious side effects.

Surgery

Cut it out off me!!! Surgery remains a great, simple solution; you cut out the affected region, the cancer is gone! Most of the time, surgery alone is not always easy to accomplish; the mass could be too big or difficult/impossible to access, the affected organs could be innoperable without causing too much damage (brain removal prooves often to be fatal, some exceptions arises; have a look at the wpd chat and don't ask yourself why)

Side effect would be, obviously, to keep on living without the removed part. Other reconstructive surgery might be required in the future to augment quality of life.

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Mastectomy of left breast (you guessed it, removal of left breast).

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Hysterectomy (removal of uterus).

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Total colectomy (removal of colon, yes you'll shit in a bag for the rest of your life).

Preventive surgery

The scientific progress allows to map out more and more of the human genome. Some specific key genes are linked to some precise form of cancer. If some type of cancer is recurring in your family, some testing might reveal a gene mutation associated with said type of cancer. Preventive surgery can be an option to avoid entirely the cancer associated with that body part. Preventive double mastectomy is now a preferred type of treatment in opposition to facing breast cancer and then a double mastectomy if the BRCA1 gene mutation is discovered in patients with a family history of breast cancer.

Chemotherapy

Basically a vile toxic chemical concoction designed to destroy specific markers attached to cancer cell in your body. The drugs are introduced into the patient bloodstream so they can attack cancer cells on a systemic level.

Chemo treatments is generally quite effective but has a huge amounts of varied side effects: hair loss, sterility, nausea, loss of appetite, damage to other cells that reproduce quickly in your body like digestive system lining and bone marrow, general fatigue, a wide variety of lesser pains called peripheral neuropathy, damage to other organs and, in case you haven't figured this out yet, chemo is not compatible with pregnancy so yeah, you're gonna loose the baby.

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In some cases chemotherapy will cause the apparition of other blood related cancer like leukemia.

In most cases chemotherapy is effective, but not all the time. Some patient or specific body parts like the brain can be resistant to chemo drugs. Some tumors are more resistant to chemotherapy than others, and while they will resuce in size to a different degree, most tumors don't disappear from chemo treatments; paired with another treatment like surgery, a tumor that has reduced in size can now be more easily removed from the body thus gaining the much sought after status of cancer free.

Chemotherapy can also be used to prolong life while not having to cure cancer has a goal; this is called palliative chemotherapy, you'll soon die from cancer, but chemo will buy you some time to sort out what remains of your life and allows you to properly say good to your love ones. This leads to hearthbreaking necessary moments when a palliative patient meet with their pets one last time. 🥺🥹😢😭

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Great, now i'm crying while typing this post….

Oh, I almost forgot; chemotherapy is very toxic, exposure to the drugs is considered hazardous. The healthcare professionals handling it are exposed to some degree of risks of developing cancer, remember to thank them and never be a pain in the ass to them, especially the nurses; they go trough enough shit already.

Radiation

Radiotherapy is using ionizing radiation for cancer treatment purposes in a linear particle accelerator; now that's sciency af.

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A simple explanation would be: the radiation damage the dna of the cancer cell causing cellular death.

Radiotherapy is almost always used in pair with other treatments; it synergies very well with chemotherapy. It can also be used as total body irradiation technique to destroy entirely the bone marrow in the body just before a marrow transplant for many form of blood cancer.

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Radiotherapy is mostly painless, used in low doses it has very little side effects outside of some discomfort due to edema in surrounding tissues in the following days. Higher doses is another story; all depends of the exposure and targets, but all high doses side effects are expected and predictable; while it helps dealing with cancer, this shit will fuck you up.

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It can cause irreversible damage to surrounding tissues and organs as it works in a linear pattern. In high recurring doses, you will develop secondary tumors in the following years.

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This is the cyberknife, just imagine bringing this badboy to a knife fight; the other dude can cut you up, but you'll cancer him up good…

Immunotherapy

Now we're getting in the newer treatments for cancer. Immunotherapy is a biological treatment designed to either supress or activate/enhance the immune system. Most of the time, when cell division occurs and complications arise, the body trigger an immune response to destroy the problematic cells. When cancer arise, the body cannot discern the cancerous cells from healthy cells and let them multiply indefinitely.

Activation immunotherapies are techniques using the patient current immune system, removing the white cells (lymphocytes), triggering a response in vitro toward targeted markers within cancer cells and then reintroducing them in the patient body. There is a wide variety of methods employed to trigger this response, but the current success rate is around 30%. When it works, it is quite the miracle; the body will do the work without using other more damaging forms of treatments.

A new procedure recently developed is used when transplantation of bone marrow is done; animal dna, often rabbit, is introduced in the body to trigger an immune response toward the foreing animal dna, allowing the transplanted cells to take in before the body notice and answer that new invader. Some risks of systemic shock is possible, but this kind of procedure is used when compatibility with donor is lower than average or the patient has a history of transplantation rejection.

Transplantation of partial immune system via the bone marrow from a compatible donnor with the use of radiotherapy is currently used for the treatment of a variety of lynphoma and other blood cancers. Stems cell research also has potential for treating forms of cancer trough immunotherapy.

A hopeful future

The majority of current treatments used to combat cancer might seems barbaric; removal of body parts, irradiation and use of highly toxic drugs is very damaging and shows why we refer to cancer treatment has a “fight” or “battle”.

The custom tailored treatments offered by immunotherapy represent a very bright future. Currently it is very expensive and has a lower success rate than more aggressive procedures, but trough research and funding, this will change rapidly. Cancer affects us all, directly or indirectly; it is the current medical bane of mankind.

War might never changes, but medical science does, and a little part of the two are indirectly linked together.

Once more, I am not a healthcare professional; this post is made for educational and entertainment only and should not be used as a diagnostic tool.

I'm just a dude enjoying medical science and gore.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Thanks in advance for commenting and supporting the efforts i've put into it.

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CHILD WARNING Steps of dissecting an infant's brain during an autopsy

Process of Dissecting the Brain in an Infant During an Autopsy

Brain removal in infants and fetuses. Before skull ossification and suture closure is complete, the fontanelles can be separated, allowing access to the anterior and middle cranial fossae.

As in the adult, the goal of the removal of the brain and other cranial contents is to produce minimal distortion and artifact, enabling a careful examination and diagno- sis. Most older children's brains can be removed in a manner identical to those of adults (see Chapter 4). In fetuses and infants, the scalp incision and extracranial dissections are the same as for adults. Once the galea has been retracted forward and backward to expose the skull, the fontanelles should be measured. In these younger age groups the sutures have not fused, so the bony plates of the skull can be separated easily by sharp dissection and retracted in a “butterfly” manner (Fig. 5-10).

In newborn infants in whom sagittal sinus trauma or developmental abnormalities are suspected, the following alternative cranial opening preserves the critical anatomy. To preserve the superior sagittal sinus, a scalpel is used to incise the dura at the lateral angles of the anterior fontanel. The two small incisions allow access for a pair of heavy-duty scissors to cut through bone parallel to and approximately 1 cm lateral on both sides of the midline, preserving the superior sagittal sinus in between (Fig. 5-11, A). Each of these incisions is continued anteriorly and posteriorly (into frontal and occipital bones) and laterally (into the parietal bones) to create two large bone flaps, each on a “hinge” of uncut parietal bone inferiorly. After carefully inspecting the hemispheres, falx cerebri, and tentorium cerebelli through the openings, remove the midline bone and sinus (Fig. 5-11, B). If important pos- terior fossa and cervical cord lesions are suspected, they may be explored by an alternative posterior approach, as described in detail by Gilles.10 This method is superb for demonstration of posterior fossa abnormalities, but it takes additional time

To remove the brain, make sure all needed supplies are within reach and wet the surfaces of your gloves before touching the brain surface. Fully reflect the flaps to maxi- mize the opening, and let the occiput rest on the autopsy table. Use a pair of scissors to release the attachments of the falx and tentorium. The cranial nerves are cut as described for the adult. As these cuts are made, the pro- sector must use a hand to support the brain as it slowly falls out of the cranial cavity. With the brainstem in view, transect the spinal cord as far down as possible. If the tissue is autolyzed, the soft brain may have to be eased directly into the container of formaldehyde and weighed after fixation. Alternatively, very soft fetal or infant brains may be removed from the skull under water, allowing flotation of the delicate brain out of the skull until separa- tion through the low brainstem–cervical cord is achieved. The floating brain can be eased, using a fabric hammock, into a container for fixation. The brain should be sup- ported during fixation to prevent it from flattening on the bottom of the container, either by suspension in a fabric hammock or by the “salting” technique described in Chapter 8.

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Figure 5-11 Alternative brain removal technique to preserve the sagittal sinus in infants and fetuses. A, The skull bone is cut parallel to and approximately 1 cm lateral on both sides of the midline, preserving the superior sagittal sinus in between. B, After carefully inspecting the hemispheres, falx cerebri, and tentorium cerebelli through the openings, the midline bone and sinus are removed using scissors.

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After adequate fixation, the brain is inspected and cut, largely as described for the adult brain (see Chapter 4). Briefly, the cerebral hemispheres are separated from the brainstem and cerebellum with a scalpel. The cerebral convexities are placed down on a cutting board, and, with a long knife, serial coronal slices (approximately 1 cm thick) are made starting from the frontal tip and finishing with the occipital pole. The thickness of the cuts may need to be increased for brains that are soft and friable. Coronal cuts of the cerebellum and spinal cord complete the dissection (Fig. 5-12)

Connolly, A., Finkbeiner, W., Ursell, P., & Davis, R. (2016). Autopsy pathology a manual and Atlas. Elsevier

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Torn off penis… :marseycringe:

Couldn't find any background for this, Let me know if it belongs in a different category.

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Gnarly finger wound.

If this is in the wrong category, let me know please!

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Bad burn on the leg

Couldn't find any background unfortunately.

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The patient is still conscious it seems :marseyflushzoom:

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Completly rotten face :marseybeansick:

ANOTHER ONE WHERE @FunnyStuffMP4 JUST DONT KNOW HOW THIS CAN HAPPEN...

WAS HE LIKE "OH THERE ARE SOME MAGGOTS ON MY FACE AND THEY ARE EATING MY WHOLE HEAD, ANYWAYS" OR HOW THE HELL THIS HAPPENS :marseygunshotsuicide:

TRANS LIVES MATTER (I HAVE TOO SAY THAT)

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open chest surgery

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CHILD WARNING EFFORTPOST skin grafting info

Skin grafting is a skin transplantation and is done to aid healing in large wounds. Grafting is most commonly used for burn victims or accidents that cause great loss of skin. (in this post there is only one minor, hence the child warning)

They may remove your own skin from an area to use as a graft, this gives it a less likely chance of rejection. If that isn't an option or the doctor chooses to, they can use skin from a skin donor. Donors can be alive or deceased, but they will more commonly be deceased.

They often time use a tool called a dermatome to remove the skin from the donor site

concept

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dermatone

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meshed skin

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process and harvesting sites

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The most common skin harvesting parts are the back, lower legs, and the lower abdomen

fresh graft + donor site [[10]]

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healing donor site [9]

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healed donor site

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They use this machine that meshes the skin so it can cover a larger surface area.

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burn debridment + skin graft

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Fish Skin Grafting

Yep, you heard that right..fish skin grafts.

Fish skin grafting "is a new skin substitute is currently being used in clinical applications. Acceleration of the wound healing, lack of disease transmission, and low cost of the production process can introduce fish skin as a potential alternative to other grafts" [12]

which fish do they use?

They use talpia and North Atlantic cod for skin grafting. "They are able to sterilize the fish skin with Chlorhexidine and povidone iodine...as they are effective against Gram-negative, Gram-positive bacteria and fungi and kill by disruption of the cell membrane."

[13]

sterilization process

"The Tilapia skin strips were allocated randomly into four main groups (3 skin strips for each); CHG, PVP-I, and AgNPs groups. Each group was then incubated for different contact time points (5, 10, and 15 min). In addition to a control group (C) treated with normal saline for the three different times. The tilapia skin strips were subjected to bacteriological and histological evaluation following each sterilization treatment at the indicated time points." [13]

benefits

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example

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https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111406982107568.webp

Maria Ines Candido da Silva, 36, suffered severe burns to her arms and neck from a gas canister explosion. [14]

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her leg wrapped in fish skin

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The Tilapia's skin was left on Miss da Silva's neck, face and left arm for 11 days before being removed.

Doctors kept the fish skin on her left hand for longer as these wounds were deeper.

The fish skin grafts on her hand were replaced many times over a 20 day period to restore the damaged tissue. [14]


Medical Examples

Fresh

from a 3rd degree burn

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111325766439984.webp

skin graft due to cancer [11]

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111388131699011.webp

full thickness integra skin graft + 1 year post op

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111380981599991.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111381005902257.webp

Fresh + Healing/Healed

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111360810030322.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711136081308013.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111360818938613.webp

Unknown Causes

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111574309539773.webp

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111360808201413.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111360809449246.webp

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711141519283792.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111415193292863.webp

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111574311509333.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111574320795262.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111574317328033.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711157432132414.webp

avulsion fracture + skin graft (child)

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/171113689138684.webp

Burns

Woman suffers deep 2nd and 3rd degree burns on the face [2]

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334060998194.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334065107555.webp

debridment

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334068674405.webp

full thickness graft sutured to the face [2] https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334070425923.webp

1 week post-op

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334072103648.webp

3 weeks post-op

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334073916826.webp

3 weeks post-op closure on the donor site https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334077024074.webp

3 months post-op. ectropion visible on the left lower eyelid

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711133407898159.webp

6 months post-op. finally healed! :yay:

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111334081026042.webp

Volcano burn survivor, Stephanie Browitt [2]

New Zealand's White Island volcano

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711135206755257.webp

During this eruption, only 22 out of the 47 victim's survived, one of them being Stephanie Browitt

Browitt's younger sister, Krystal, 21, never made it off the island. Her body was retrieved several days later.

Browitt's father, Paul, was airlifted to a hospital but died from his injuries a month later. [2]

her explaining on a chart of the location of the burns, she was burned on 70% of her body

burns

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111352055201077.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111352056715202.webp

unfortunately she lost several of her fingers after the eruption

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111352053834774.webp

compression mask + removal

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111352058461685.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711135206027748.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111352065335295.webp

Browitt has worn the compression mask for two-and-a-half years, fearing the day “would never come” when she would finally be able to reveal her face. [2]

leg scarring

(now: dec 20, 2022)

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111357991796927.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111357996457317.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711135800073558.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711135800467472.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111358008386874.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111358016744401.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711135802037104.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711135802842434.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111358034367008.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111358040490391.webp

leg wrinkles!!

Facial Scarring

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111360820103273.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111360823941183.webp

In the earlier stages of scar healing, they can take on a dark purple/red/pink color. This color does fade after a few years, it will go down to a lighter pink then it will fade to white, or to whatever your skin color is

Her Instagram is stephaniecoral96 and she posts her healing progress! Her reconstruction is truly amazing.

Accidents

Traffic accident deglovement, wound necrosis, infection, sepsis and healing progression of skin graft. (the thing in the wound that is connected to a tube is a wound vac) [3]

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3 year skin graft progression. [4]

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111375271010664.webp

3 year progression of skin graft healing post car-crash.

https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/171113752737157.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111375281254222.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711137530203285.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111375329373224.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/1711137535935089.webp https://i.watchpeopledie.tv/images/17111375384548774.webp

Wrecked my car over three years ago and broke my femur/shattered my pelvis. My thigh was partially degloved resulting in necrosis/infection, after a few debridement surgeries & a wound vac, I got a skin graft done that was successful. [4]



Terms

Debridment: removal of dead or infected skin tissue or foreign objects from the wound to aid healing

Degloving: when a large piece of your skin along with the layer of soft tissue right under it is partially or completely ripped from your muscles and connecting tissues. [7]

Donor Site: the area of your body where skin is taken for skin grafting

Ectropion: is a condition in which your eyelid turns outward.

Integra Skin Graft: a synthetic skin replacement used to reconstruct wounds after elective planned surgery, or after trauma [6]

Wound Vac: removes this pressure over the area of the wound. This can help a wound heal in several ways. It can gently pull fluid from the wound over time. This can reduce swelling and may help clean the wound. [8]


Sources

[1] https://bestwoundpractice.com/third-degree-burn-in-the-face/

[2] https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/white-island-volcano-burn-survivor-removes-face-mask-for-1st-time/

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/medizzy/comments/150m0r8/traffic_accident_deglovement_wound_necrosis/?sort=controversial

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/surgery/comments/lq5qg9/skin_graft_3_years_on/?sort=controversial

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/MedicalGore/comments/1akto2d/skin_graft_inner_thigh_after_3_years/?sort=controversial

[6] https://cambridgeplasticsurgery.co.uk/Integra-Dermal-Substitute

[7] https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/what-is-a-degloving-injury

[8] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/vacuumassisted-closure-of-a-wound

[9] https://old.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/10wnpxb/skin_graft_donor_site_healing/?sort=controversial

[10] https://old.reddit.com/r/MedicalGore/comments/19cqw0p/skin_graft_and_donor_site/?sort=controversial

[11] https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/r5ssdl/mild_gore_brothers_girlfriends_transparent_skin/?sort=controversial

[12] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10410342/

[13] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785820/

[14] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4033254/Doctors-using-FISH-SKIN-treat-burn-victims-pioneering-new-treatment-heal-wounds.html


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