Plastics

Residents:
Senior Resident: Becky King, Jonathan Freedman
Junior Resident: Mike Gehring
Intern: Elliott Yee

PA - Kendra Keene 316 250 5999
RN - Nichole Fitzgerald 720 683 1770

Attendings:
Stephanie Malliaris: 617 970 7590
Corrine Wong: 972 322 2078

This is a relatively relaxed rotation. We want the interns to be engaged and see each type of surgery we perform including hand surgery. This is a center of excellence for transgender surgery and female to male and male to female top surgery is common. Please be respectful and use appropriate pronouns (he/his, she/her, they, etc.). There will be multiple opportunities to practice suturing each week.

There is a crosscover intern at night. Sign-out is 6pm and then 6am the next day. Please ensure that the overnight intern has the on call Plastic Surgery Resident's phone number. The night intern is welcome to the wiki. If they do not have access, please email Jonathan.Freedman@CUAnschutz.edu

The weekend is split between Urology and Plastics, so as the intern you will cover both of these services. Please let the weekend intern know who is on call and give them the appropriate phone numbers. Additionally, the plastics intern now covers the RGB patients after they have rounded.

You are encouraged to update this wiki as needed. Please update your name and phone number above. Especially at the end of the rotation as you are signing out to the next intern, please take a few minutes and update the wiki and make sure the next intern has access. You will be asked for feedback on the wiki one week before the end of the rotation – this will improve your fellow intern's experience.

Intern tips
- Almost daily needed wound dressings: xeroform, bacitracin/vaseline, kerlex, ABD pads, ACE wraps, scissors, tape.
- For I&Ds: 500ml bottles of NS, I&D kit, TUMI syringe, suction, ABD pad, sterile gloves, 1% lidocaine w/ or w/o epi, acute pain meds for patient (50mcg fentanyl)
- The list:
– for all patients (primary and consults), should include vitals (ranges with and pertinent Tmax, desats, etc), I/Os with special attention to WV and drain output (note the last 24 hr output), and any relevant labs (CBC, BMP, cx, path, etc).
– for PRIMARY patients: as above with system-based plan/to-do.
- Get notes done early so you can go to the OR. After preoping patient (mark and consent) establish yourself in the OR (work on notes, make calls, etc) and throw your gloves to the scrub tech.
- Wound vac: do NOT put the black sponge over healthy skin - this can lead to maceration, and in some sick people, further damage to skin edges. Black sponge is hydrophobic; indicated for wound without tunnels, undermining, and/or exposed bone. White sponge is hydrophilic; indicated for wounds that tunnel, undermine, and/or are over exposed bone/tendon/muscle.

Common pimp questions:
- stages of skin graft taking
- full thickness vs split thickness skin grafts; pros/cons, uses
- anatomy

Common cases:
- female to male chest reconstruction
– several different surgical approaches but most common is double incisions with free nipple grafting
- muscle flaps, myo/fasciocutaneous flaps for complex wound coverage
- hand surgery
– carpal tunnel release
– trauma ie tendon lacerations, fractures, nerve injury
- skin grafts

- The fellow on service at DG will round with the team (Kendra and intern and sometimes R2) on the plastic surgery service. The fellow will communicate with the primary attending regarding patient care. On Mondays when the fellows are in conference, Kendra will run the team rounding responsibility

- Please ensure that the first case of the day has a new or interval H&P pended in the chart in order to expedite preop process.

On the weekend if there is a primary plastics patient, this person will be rounded on by the intern covering plastics, who will then communicate with the fellow on call, who will round in reasonably time (usually after CHC and The U)

Dr. Wong has clinic on Tuesday AM and Thursday AM. Dr. Malliaris has Ortho Hand clinic on Wednesday all-day and Thursday afternoon.

When on plastics, check the board for attending cases. For Hand cases with Malliaris, please communicate with the Hand Fellow and Ortho hand resident to make sure that Malliaris is covered appropriately.

If the fellow is assigned to OMFS or Ortho, that clinic and those cases are the priority. If there is no other cases for OMFS or Ortho, please check with the plastics team to see if they need help with the cases/clinic. For the ORTHO month, Livermore is the boss, and you should focus on Hand, ie go to hand clinic and do hand cases with Livermore, Malliaris, and Ipatchki and Benegas if needed. Again when doing hand, please be equitable with our Hand fellows and Ortho residents!,

Discharge instructions can be found in Kendra Keene's smart phrase list. They all start “.DCXYC”. Please place the appropriate discharge instruction and PACU discharge order set for outpatient cases.

To make follow-up appointments: send a staff message in Epic to the scheduler and ask for a follow-up appointment in the time frame you'd like and include what surgery the patient had. Send to the following: -Hand patients: “DH PAV B ORTHO FRONT DESK” under pool (click the “to” button and then you will have the option to search a pool) -Plastics patients: Nichole Fitzgerald, RN

Note for consents.

There are many bony fixation tissue cases. Consents for these should always include “non-union, malunion and hardware failure” as well as the normal soft tissue scar, infection, pain, bleeding, damage to nearby nerves, arteries, veins and tendons, and need for additional procedures.

Risks include, but are not limited to, infection, scarring, pain, damage to surrounding structures, incomplete resolution of symptoms, need for further procedures, malunion, nonunion and hardware failure.

For Dr. Wong's breast cases, please print out a frontal view of the patient pre-operative photo. Black and white is fine.

- The plastics intern takes first call during the day for any plastics consults and occasional face call, but will notify the fellow ASAP. - When called for a consult (ER or inpatient), the intern is responsible for 1) seeing the consult as soon as possible, and 2) presenting the patient to the fellow/attending on-call who may ultimately assume care of that patient.

Please keep in close contact with attendings and Kendra, as cases will get added on.

Pressure ulcers come in waves at DH. PMR wants to see patient before surgery at a pre-operative appointment. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and PMR should be consulted on day 1 regardless of activity restrictions.

For any wound consult make sure you know nutritional status, if the wound is infected, reason for admission, overall prognosis of the patient, and an assessment of resources for wound care after surgery.

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