This month, the Educational and Research Foundation for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AafPRS Foundation) from Face to Face Fourth Medical Mission to Ukraine will be.
Under the leadership of plastic and reconstructive Arise Bunoj Abraham, MD, FACS, an interdisciplinary medical team of 22 – including plastic and reconstructive AAFPRS member, will be stationed in a hospital in LVIV, one of the largest cities in Ukraïen, about four house of the pool gorder.
Face -TO -Face is the humanitarian and education surgical exchange program that is played by the AafPRS Foundation.
The medical mission team plans to operate on 30 patients with serious face trauma as a result of war -related injuries. These complex procedures-on-up to 12 hours of microvascular free flap operations and reconstruction 3D, patient-specific implants include. In addition to providing direct care, the surgeons will train local Ukrainian doctors in these techniques to build sustainable medical skill in the region.
“What we see in Ukraine is an overwhelming need for complex facial reconstruction that goes beyond Basistrauma,” says Mission Trip Leader and Face -To -Face Committee Senior Manoj T. Abraham, MD, FACS, in an Estafette. “This mission is not just about performing life -changing operations -it is about local equipment equipment with the skills and tools to help this work move forward. That is how we create a lasting impact.”
Under the treatment of Thos is a female patient who was at home in Kostianyynivka, the Donetsk region on 11 September 2024, when a rocket met her residential area. The explosion caused solid face trauma a mining injury for mijnblaas, which requires complex reconstructive intervention. Another female patient will be treated after the rise in head injury due to the shelling in Bakhmut on January 1, 2023, when Russian troops launched an artillery attack and her house was hit.
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