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Important first aid / emergency measures in treatment of burns –
Wish you a very Happy Diwali ! It being the festival season of Diwali, we see a lot of cases of Burns due to fire cracker, most commonly while lightening the fire cracker, when the cracker bursts suddenly and burns your hand or in other cases when the firecracker flames catches your clothes and you have
Skin Grafting Surgery
Split thickness Skin Grafting is the first surgery we learn during our Plastic Surgery residency programme. Its a surgery where by harvest skin from a part of the body (most commonly, the thigh) to cover a wound or defect in another part of the body. The area where we take skin from (Donor area) heals by itself
Body Contouring after Massive weight Loss surgery
Obesity refers to a patients weight more than that for his height. Most commonly used formula used to quantify Obesity is Body mass Index (BMI). BMI = Kg/m2 BMI Classification <18.5 Underweight 18.5-24.9 Normal Weight 25.0-29.9 Overweight 30.0-34.9 Class I – Obesity 35.0-39.9 Class II – Obesity 40.0-49.9 Class III – morbid obesity >50.0 Class