Cuts to the hand can cause significant damage.

This is how you will prevent it

Injuries to the palm are much more common than we think, and yet we do not know enough about them.

An expert explains how to treat such injuries, and also - how to maintain a severed finger and why the thumb is the most important finger

Iris Cole

15/07/2022

Friday, 15 July 2022, 00:32 Updated: 00:51

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Dr. Tamir Partish, Director of the Hand Surgery Unit at Ichilov, explains what types of injuries are common to the hands - and how to repair them (Walla system)

Sometimes we take our hands for granted, but anyone who has experienced an injury or injury to a hand knows how essential this organ is to our functioning.

Dr. Tamir Partish, Director of the Hand Surgery Unit at the Ichilov Hospital's Orthopedic Division, hosted the podcast "Specialist Clinic" to explain the types of injuries common to the hands - and how to repair them.

First it is important to understand that our hands are particularly sensitive Vigilant in case of injury. "Any cut or any injury that is not a superficial injury is an injury that can cause damage in principle," explained Dr. Partish. "If someone does not feel any area after an injury or cut, or can not move the hand."

A severed finger?

It happens more than you think

It sounds like something that only happens in movies, but Dr. Partish has often come across a man running to the emergency room with his finger in an ice pack, and he has some important things to clarify on this matter.

When an organ is amputated and needs to be connected and it will work, the most important thing to do is to renew the blood supply to that organ.

Without blood this organ will not receive oxygen, and without oxygen it cannot continue to live.

"Such a stopwatch is activated from the moment the limb is amputated until the time is delayed," he explains.

A finger, if preserved correctly, can hold up to 24 hours without a blood supply. You need to get to the hospital quickly because there is a lot more tissue that is amputated and if it does not receive blood, it can rot, and this is a matter of a few hours.

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He added that the manner in which the amputated finger is preserved is of great importance.

"Cold lowers the metabolism in the body, so once an organ is amputated it should be cooled - but it is not advisable to put it in ice or a bowl of water, because it damages the organ, one should just wrap it in moist gauze, put it in a bag and the bag on ice," explained D. "R. Partish," that there should be no direct contact between the ice and the limb. "This has great significance for the chance of offering the amputated limb

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"The most important thumb - is on a different plane from the rest of the fingers, and the role of the thumb is to meet all the other fingers and allow different actions, it differentiates us from the monkeys," he said, "so there are a variety of amputations The damage is too great or for some other reason, but when it comes to the thumb,

These injuries are common - and it is important to identify them quickly

Amputation of a finger or limb is of course the tip, but there are also other injuries of the hands, the most common of which is cuts.

"There are a wide variety of injuries that can be caused as a result of cuts. It can be an incision that only affects the skin, but really close to the skin there are a lot of very important structures that can be injured," Dr. Partish explained. "Exercise and bend our fingers or wrist, cuts of nerves that are responsible for the sensation and activation of our muscles, and these are injuries that need to be identified quickly, because time matters in terms of their chances of recovery, and treatment is usually surgical.

" "Even if after an injury you check and see that everything is moving, but the injury is more than a superficial injury - it is worth checking. Because if there are things that are partially damaged they should be identified, because these things, depending on the degree of injury, can progress And the treatment is more complex "

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