• Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery;;
  • Guangdong Provincial Peoples Hospital;;
  • Guangzhou P.R.China 510080;;
Electric burns; Tissue flap grafting; Rehabilitation therapy
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High-voltage electric burns is refractory with high rate of amputation (46%) in early stage and unfavorable functional recovery in later stage. Little breakthrough has so far been made in this respect. From Jan. 1985 to Jan. 1996, ninety-six cases with high-voltage burns were treated in our department. Seventy-one cases of various tissue flap grafting were applied to treat early electric burns, among which sixty-four cases were successful. The amputation rate was reduced to 30%. Postoperatively, a long-term rehabilitation training at home was carried out. Most of them achieved a good appearance of the wounded sites and limbs and satisfactory ability to work or self-care. It was suggested that early thorough debridement of necrosis tissue, careful reservation of living tissue, appropriate choice of tissue flap and postoperative rehabilitation training were of great importance to achieve a good prognosis.

Citation： Chen Huade,Chen Yunying,Lai Wen et al.. THE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC BURNS. Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, 1998, 12(1): 26-27. doi: Copy

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