Health News from Medical News Today: Limb Salvage Team Helps Victims Of Haitian Earthquake

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Limb Salvage Team Helps Victims Of Haitian Earthquake 31 May 2011, 4:00 pm A team of plastic and orthopedic surgeons achieved a high success rate in limb salvage-minimizing the need for amputations-among patients injured in last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti, reports a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Mobilized in the acute phase of disaster response, this "ortho-plastic limb salvage team" approach provides expert surgical care to severely injured patients under the most difficult conditions... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.