Rowley Cottingham wrote:
>This was simply using the old fashioned method of maximal traction. In so
far as I was ever taught, I was taught to apply vast amounts of traction
before anything else. So there was with this ancient lady, Biers block in
place, and have simply pulled and all the skin of her arm followed me.
However, I learnt that you must take into account the whole patient rather
than simply the wrist.<
Did the your patient suffer from any specific skin condition which favoured
the degloving injury or was it just the frail skin of an elderly lady?
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