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Emergency Medicine

A patient who had their finger tip amputated in the door attends your ER. Plastic surgery is not available at your center. How will you treat this patient? And what would the best modality for transporting the amputated finger tip have been?

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amputation of finger tip by a ring caught in the fence, amputated tip found 2 hours after incident, cold day. what are the most important steps towards salvaging the finger tip and what are the odds of success?

You receive a child whose finger tip was amputated as shown. What would have been the best medium for parent to bring you to the tip, and how would you proceed from here?

Amputated finger tips after industrial accident

I know it's a couple weeks late but this is why you don't play with fireworks kids.. All fingers were completely degloved along with the traumatic amputations of the distal tips of all fingers except the ring finger.

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