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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Multiple compound and comminuted fractures in carpometacarpal particularly on the right as well as compound and comminuted fractures on the left distal radial and ulnar bones.

Amputating 100%, but where will depend on the possible presence of any severe lacerations, contusions, and third or fourth degree burns.

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backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s not lupus
  
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_lilith@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
doc says they can’t lend a hand

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TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
At this level of trauma the orthopedist isnt going to get that specific. It’s just going to be a trans carpal traumatic amputation of the left icd-10 S68.412 (Complete) and a traumatic trans metacarpal amputation of the right icd-10 S68.711.

More than likely both will end up being a distal transradial amputations.

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Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can tell this man is a doctor because he wants to amputate the hand that is already disconnected.

Gotta get that $$$.

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- TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It will prob still require a distal radial amputation just to aid in prosthetic fittings. Those carpal bones don’t really do anything for ya but create osteoarthritis if you’re missing the rest of the hand.
  
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- FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh, I’m sorry, were you planning on using those metacarpals for something?
  
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- dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I mean you don’t HAVE to be able to get a prosthesis. If you wanna rock a battle stump you’re welcome to?
  
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  - Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Do you need to cut hands a certain way to get prosthetics?
    
    That is news to me.
    
    Totally they were custom to every stump - which explained why I heard they are so expensive
    
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    dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    They are still custom because people aren’t all exactly the same shape and size even before amputations. That said though I presume you don’t want small pieces of bones or like partial smaller bones beneath a prosthesis. Like it makes sense to keep fingers on a hand. But if it’s just an arm then wrist bones that doesn’t seem ideal. I’m not a doctor. But it seems to me if you have a choice how a limb is severed there’s probably a “best” way to do it.
    
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