Necrotising Soft-Tissue Infection

Chapter 22 of Volume 3, Skin, Burns & Surgical Principles. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

10 viva questions in this chapter

1. Describe this photograph.
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2. What are you going to do?
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3. How do you make the diagnosis? Tell me about the LRINEC score.
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4. Would you image this patient?
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5. What antibiotics, and why clindamycin?
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6. Take me through the operation.
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7. When do you take them back?
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8. When would you amputate? And when would you not operate at all?
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9. What about hyperbaric oxygen and immunoglobulin?
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10. The patient survives. How do you reconstruct them?
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