tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675087351939177300.post4810550768571026452..comments2023-08-15T09:39:41.235-05:00Comments on Sutured for a Living: Maggot Therapy Revisitedrlbateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675087351939177300.post-83790745122179294612009-01-03T19:48:00.000-06:002009-01-03T19:48:00.000-06:00Great post! I love the Medical Maggot insert!I ha...Great post! I love the Medical Maggot insert!<BR/><BR/>I had a very obese patient who showed up in the ER a year after her abdominal hysterectomy for a gyn cancer. I had to have a couple of medical students help me with her pannus. When we lifted it up, I saw that her wound had never fully closed. It smelled pretty bad, and I could see I was deeper than my hand, so we opted to go to a surgical debridement. When we got her a spinal anesthesia in the OR, and got a good look, deeper in the wound there were maggots. They had done a pretty good job of cleaning up some of the dead tissue. She was mortified. I tried to act like it wasn't such a big deal, but how do you play that down?<BR/><BR/>We did have a hard time eating that day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675087351939177300.post-40177259119363758052008-08-11T20:24:00.000-05:002008-08-11T20:24:00.000-05:00Great post..maggots and leeches, back to mother na...Great post..maggots and leeches, back to mother nature for treatment.<BR/><BR/>I was asked to clean a diabetic foot full of maggots on my first clinical rotation as a med student. I wonder how much that had to do with my picking up psychiatry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675087351939177300.post-54341046851031176282008-08-11T18:17:00.000-05:002008-08-11T18:17:00.000-05:00Im with bongi. My scalpel works better than the i...Im with bongi. My scalpel works better than the itty bitty jaws of maggots crunching through gangrene. Good review, though.Jeffrey Parks MD FACShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15650563299849196122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675087351939177300.post-91978053405096690562008-08-11T18:01:00.000-05:002008-08-11T18:01:00.000-05:00we get the occasional patient who has had a 'natur...we get the occasional patient who has had a 'natural debridement' but i hate the smell. i clean them up and get rid of the putrid little creatures. what they can do i can do also. i just release less amonia smelling odours.Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.com