Some important treatment issues to victims with severe combat limb injuries (a literature review)
https://doi.org/10.25199/2408-9613-2025-12-2-6-13
Abstract
The review presents current views on the issues of performing primary high amputations or preserving the lower extremities in severe combat trauma, discusses options for a reconstructive strategy for treating high-energy limb injuries, possible prognoses and long-term results. The importance of long-termcatamnestic monitoring of the wounded with high-energy combat injury of the lower extremities is shown for the analysis of possible defects in medical care and its’ correction of future treatment protocols.
About the Authors
I. V. Borisov
A. V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery; Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor V. Borisov – MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), head of the diabetic foot office at Wounds and Wound Infections Department; Associate Professor at the department of disaster medicine
27 Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya Str., Moscow, 117997
8 Miklukho-Maklaya Str., Moscow, 117198
V. A. Mitish
A. V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery; Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Valery A. Mitish – MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), Associate Professor, head of the department of wounds and wound infections; head of the department of disaster medicine
27 Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya Str., Moscow, 117997
8 Miklukho-Maklaya Str., Moscow, 117198
Yu. S. Paskhalova
A. V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery; Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yulia S. Paskhalova – MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), senior researcher at the department of wounds and wound infections; Associate Professor at the department of disaster medicine
27 Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya Str., Moscow, 117997
8 Miklukho-Maklaya Str., Moscow, 117198
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Borisov I.V., Mitish V.A., Paskhalova Yu.S. Some important treatment issues to victims with severe combat limb injuries (a literature review). Wounds and wound infections. The prof. B.M. Kostyuchenok journal. 2025;12(2):6-13. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25199/2408-9613-2025-12-2-6-13
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