The Surgery Room

Episode 11: Sternal Wound Reconstruction — When Cardiac Surgery Goes Wrong and Plastics Gets the Call


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The cardiac ICU calls at 11pm. Exposed wires, sternal click, fever. This is what you do.

Pectoralis major anatomy, IMA harvest and what it costs you, bilateral flap advancement, omentum as salvage, and the complications that carry a 25% mortality. Episode 11 — sternal wound reconstruction, from the phone call to the dressing.


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