Amputation: Nerves, Analgesia & Aftercare

Chapter 23 of Volume 4, Breast, Trunk, Lower Limb & Aesthetics. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

15 viva questions in this chapter

1. Take me through a below-knee amputation.
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2. How do you design the flap? Give me the measurement.
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3. When would you not close it?
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4. What do you do with the nerves?
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5. What is the evidence for TMR?
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6. And RPNI?
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7. TMR or RPNI? And when?
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8. How common is pain after amputation?
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9. Would you use a perineural catheter?
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10. Can you prevent phantom limb pain?
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11. What about drugs?
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12. Mirror therapy?
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13. What dressing do you put on?
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14. Talk me through the post-operative regime.
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15. What are the outcomes?
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