Burns and plastic surgery

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/med/9780199642663.003.0024 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jane Leaver

Keyword(s):

Plastic Surgery ◽

Surgical Procedures ◽

Reconstructive Surgery ◽

Form And Function ◽

Life Threatening ◽

And Function ◽

Comprehensive History

A burn is a thermal insult to the skin and underlying tissue. A good understanding of the physiology of burns is essential to effectively manage the burn patient’s care, in order to optimize recovery from a potentially life-threatening injury. An ABCDE approach is used to assess the patient, along with gaining a comprehensive history, including mechanisms of injury, the time elapsed since the burn, and any treatment already initiated. Plastic surgery is concerned with correcting or restoring form and function. It can involve reconstructive surgery, the treatment of burns, the removal of lesions, and cosmetic surgical procedures.

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Prosthetic Considerations in Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine Education and Research ◽

10.5005/jp-journals-10028-1107 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 87-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sudhir Bhandari

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

The Other ◽

Maxillofacial Trauma ◽

Maxillofacial Region ◽

Form And Function ◽

Life Threatening ◽

Oral And Maxillofacial Region ◽

And Function

ABSTRACT Intraoral trauma may occur in isolation or in combination with injury of the other parts of the body. Once the life-threatening phase of trauma is over, the primary need for the patient is to restore the form and function of the tissues lost due to trauma. In the oral and maxillofacial region, esthetic consideration does sometimes supersede the need of function. This article briefl y summarizes the scope of prosthodontics in patients with oral and maxillofacial trauma. How to cite this article Bhandari S. Prosthetic Considerations in Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma. J Postgrad Med Edu Res 2014; 48(2):87-90.

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Creating Value in Plastic Surgery

Seminars in Plastic Surgery ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1672207 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (04) ◽

pp. 187-190

Author(s):

Faryan Jalalabadi ◽

Shayan Izaddoost ◽

Edward Reece

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Plastic Surgery ◽

Technical Skill ◽

Surgical Results ◽

Hospital System ◽

Form And Function ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Bedside Manner ◽

Key Players ◽

And Function

AbstractValue is defined as the worth, utility, or importance something holds. It can be derived from a variety of goods and services and is relative to a given industry or population. This article will discuss elements of plastic surgery that hold value as to how it pertains to the key players in a medical transaction. It will also discuss strategies for identifying and generating value. Roles of the different members in a plastic surgery transaction were analyzed, specifically the patient, the surgeon, and the facility. Different factors that generated value for all parties were identified throughout the literature. Factors identified that created value included the following: the surgeon's knowledge, experience, and decision-making ability; and technical skill/speed, restoration of life, restoration of form and function, restoration of psychological deficit, instant surgical results, convenience of access, outcomes, cost accounting, research, compassion, and bedside manner. Plastic surgeons can gear their practice to provide the system and their patients with services that hold value. We present several factors that can generate value for the patient, surgeon, and hospital system.

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Plastic surgery

10.1093/med/9780198799481.003.0017 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 699-744

Keyword(s):

Plastic Surgery ◽

Autologous Transplantation ◽

The Body ◽

Soft Tissue Infections ◽

Composite Tissue ◽

Form And Function ◽

The Common ◽

And Function ◽

Aesthetic Awareness ◽

Severe Soft Tissue

This chapter evaluates plastic surgery, which is a constantly evolving surgical discipline based upon technical exactitude, detailed anatomical knowledge, and innovation. Plastic surgeons have strong aesthetic awareness, but the true scope of their practice is very much broader. The ethos of this work is to restore form and function. In pursuit of this goal, techniques have been refined that enable the transfer of tissues around the body as non-vascularised ‘grafts’, or vascularised ‘flaps’ that may be ‘pedicled’ on their anatomical blood supply, or revascularised after autologous transplantation by microvascular anastomosis. Globally, plastic surgeons collaborate with many specialties to enable oncological treatments and manage congenital abnormalities and trauma and severe soft tissue infections (SSTIs) across a broad range of conditions. In addition to this work, plastic surgeons have been involved in the development of composite tissue allotransplantation techniques that include facial, abdominal wall, and hand transplantation. The chapter then highlights some of the common reasons for referral to plastic surgery and describes some of the common plastic surgery techniques available to address these.

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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152148 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 34-35

Author(s):

Patricia G. Arscott ◽

Gil Lee ◽

Victor A. Bloomfield ◽

D. Fennell Evans

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structures ◽

Inorganic Materials ◽

Resolving Power ◽

Scanning Tunneling ◽

Tunneling Microscopy ◽

Form And Function ◽

Dna And Rna ◽

Calf Thymus ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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