Zubaida, a spirited 9-year-old from a nomadic family in Afghanistan, faced a harrowing accident in August 2001. While pouring kerosene into a hot stove, she caught fire, sustaining severe burns to her face, neck, chest, and arms. Despite initial treatments in Iran, her condition worsened, leaving her disfigured and emotionally scarred. In a twist of […]
Read MoreMore than 20 kidney stones have been removed from a patient in the University and Clinical Center in Kosovo. The patient, a 52 year old man, had pain in the left lumbar region for a long time. After the successful intervention and hospitalization, the patient was discharged in good health. Credits: https://www.facebook.com/shskuk.rksgov.net/posts/2990916144558505
Read MoreFrom Brazil , a country that has recorded a very high number of infections from Covid-19, comes ““mão de deus“ “, conceived by a Brazilian nurse to break down the barrier of isolation and give comfort to the patients. For over a year engaged in the fight against Coronavirus , doctors and nurses all over the world, in addition to ensuring the necessary health care for patients forced to live in […]
Read MoreKatie Stubblefield’s wit shows through when she describes her face transplant surgery. “Longest nap of my entire life,” she says. Those unfamiliar with Katie’s still-developing speech pattern may not easily make out those words, but her parents are usually there to interpret. Robb and Alesia Stubblefield have been by her side – helping her “take […]
Read MoreIn 1916, young ENT surgeon Harold Gillies set up Britain’s first plastic surgery unit, where he practised the ‘strange new art’ of facial reconstruction for those who had suffered severe injuries and burns. Gillies was given the go-ahead, and by January 1916 was setting up Britain’s first plastic surgery unit at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. Gillies toured base hospitals […]
Read MoreRobert Chelsea suffered severe injuries after getting hit by a drunk driver in 2013. After months of waiting for the right donor, the first African American man to undergo a full face transplant is recovering from a successful procedure. Chelsea has led a difficult life the last few years — he was left severely disfigured […]
Read MoreA 62-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of dyspnea and was found to have hypercapnic respiratory failure. Intubation was performed, mechanical ventilation and a continuous infusion of propofol were initiated, and the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Five days after admission […]
Read MoreMedical advances that bring us closer and closer to reality ?⚕️This isn’t a real human but rather a sophisticated thoracotomy training simulator body.This is a procedural, repairable and operable biofidelic manikin that provides new immersive training options for clinical educators and practitioners of emergency medical care.Improving clinical competency and operative outcomes without endangering patients and […]
Read MoreA beautiful and detailed presentation of the facial circulation.To isolate the vessels, red plasticizer is pumped through the the external carotid artery, spreading to all its numerous facial branches. After it sets up, acid is used to dissolve away the tissue to reveal an isolated system of astonishing capillaries and vessels. Credit: medicaltalks
Read MoreThe patient sustained a deep cut across lateral side of the nose and right cheek after being attacked by a wild boar. The best therapy for wild animal inflicted wounds with special regard to optimal wound healing time, minimum complications and minimal residual functional and aesthetic impairment would be, in our opinion primary wound debridement […]
Read MoreAs is known, to travel outside a country of origin it is essential to have a passport that proves the origin of the traveler and to have authorization to enter another territory. For this reason, the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II had to obtain one of these documents to travel from Egypt to France in […]
Read MoreThis is what happens when you use an angle grinder without face protection! The patient suffered lacerations that crossed the left nostril and extended downward, dividing the upper lip. The image on the right shows the patient after the operation, showing excellent aesthetic and functional results with minimal scarring. Before using such a power tool, […]
Read MoreRare and startling film has been captured of a human egg emerging from the ovary. Fertile women release one or more eggs every month, but until now, only fuzzy images had been recorded. The images were taken by accident by gynaecologist Jacques Donnez while carrying out a partial hysterectomy on a 45-year-old woman. The release […]
Read MoreAn 11-year-old boy who suffered horrific injuries doing a YouTube challenge still refuses to watch the video after realising how close it brought him to death. Tyler Broome took part in the ‘Roundabout of Death’ – where the back wheel of a motorbike is used to spin play equipment at great speed. The schoolboy was […]
Read MoreThe photo was taken after 5 pm on March 5 at the East Hospital Branch of the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. In the photo, Dr. Liu Kai, a member of the medical team from Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, stopped while escorting the patient for CT, and the 87-year-old man, who had been […]
Read MoreAfter a car accident left him with a head injury, Josh has been living with this growing lump on his head for the last 18 years. Dr Lee suspects it’s a cyst, so cuts it open to see what’s going on! Cyst featured in the video it’s an epidermoid cyst which is a benign cyst derived from the infundibulum […]
Read MoreDr Pimple Popper meets a man from New York who has a mysterious lump just below his knee. The lump turns out to be the largest cyst Dr. Sandra Lee has ever seen in her life – and what comes out is just unbelievable. Cysts are closed capsule or sac-like structures, typically filled with a […]
Read MoreA 77 year old bear hunter Glenn Bohn from Wasilla who found himself the hunted along the Denali Highway in mid April. A grizzly jumped him and tried to tear off his face. He was saved by his son, who shot and killed the bear while it was savaging Bohn. The bear scalped the old man. […]
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