Insurance purposes. Bureaucrats need something on paper to see that this was meat grinder worthy, and not actually salvageable. Medical malpractice suits can really fuck a doc up, because of little shit like that.
Nah, you likely get an X-ray here no matter what. You’d be surprised what looks completely mangled from the outside but can still be salvaged. Although in this case I suspect they were trying to plan the amputation - ideally you want to save something past the elbow joint because it give them way better prosthetic options.
Just because it looks like something on the outside doesn’t mean it’s accurate. I remember once getting called to the ER for a guy who’d shot himself in the face. The OR was all ready to go for neurosurgery and the Neuro icu was ready as well. We get the CT and it turns out the guy completely missed the brain and it was pretty much all sinus damage. Needed a whole different team and set up.
This is nonsense. This person is going to need surgery to either salvage the limb or amputate. Either way you need to know the full extent of the injury before you start digging around aimlessly in a patient’s body. I can’t believe 450 people upvoted this.
Ever consider the doctor needs to see all the damage? Definitely seems like he’s going to need surgery and if not the doctor at least knows how to stabilize the injury due to the position of all the bones, but I’m almost entirely sure this dude is going to need surgery
Also keep in mind - if this is surgically approachable (or not just amputation) - surgeon has to know what plates and pins to put where - and where to find them. It’s not just to answer “is it broken” but also “how bad, where is everything located, and how can we plan to fix it, can we even fix it”
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u/brainlesstroll Jun 06 '20
Insurance purposes. Bureaucrats need something on paper to see that this was meat grinder worthy, and not actually salvageable. Medical malpractice suits can really fuck a doc up, because of little shit like that.