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Reducing Risks in Surgical Facial Plastic Procedures, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 31-2 - April 3, 2023
- Editors: David B. Hom, Deborah Watson
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 8 7 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 8 8 0 - 8
In this issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. David B. Hom and Deborah Watson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Reducing Risks in Surgical… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics, guest editors Drs. David B. Hom and Deborah Watson bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Reducing Risks in Surgical Facial Plastic Procedures. Despite the many benefits of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, unfavorable outcomes and complications can occur even among experienced surgeons. In this issue, top experts discuss common risks and adverse events that may occur from a variety of procedures and describe ways to help prevent, manage, and treat them.
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Contains 17 practice-oriented topics on reducing risks for poor surgical wound healing, facial scarring, local skin flap failure, rhinoplasty, mandible and midface fracture repair, rhytidectomy, blepharoplasty, and more, as well as reducing legal risks and social media issues for cosmetic surgery.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on reducing risks in surgical facial plastic procedures, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, cosmetic & reconstructive
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword: Risk
- Preface
- Reducing Risks for Poor Surgical Wound Healing
- Key points
- Introduction
- Overview of normal wound healing
- Preoperative Considerations and Patient Characteristics
- Extrinsic Factors Contributing to Poor Surgical Healing
- Intrinsic Factors Contributing to Poor Surgical Healing
- General approach to delayed surgical healing
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Risks for a Dissatisfied Patient in Facial Cosmetic Surgery
- Key points
- Our goal should be satisfactory (but not necessarily perfect) outcomes, a safe procedure, and a pleasant overall experience
- Do not rush the initial consultation. Listen carefully
- People, who buy drills, do not really want drills, they want holes
- Expectations
- Teach: procedure, expected outcome, limitations, alternatives, and risks involved
- What is informed consent?
- Be certain of your own capabilities, skills, and limitations
- Trust your instincts as well as your rational mind
- Rapport
- You will encounter difficult and challenging patients. Accept this reality
- Access the level of difficulty
- Do everything you can to prepare including adequate mental preparation and rest
- Have your best team at their best
- Execute the procedure with your best strategy but bring plan “B”
- Postprocedure care
- Do we know how to best evaluate results?
- Invite honest communication
- Postprocedure dissatisfaction
- Can you learn anything from this?
- Online reviews
- But when all else fails…
- Finally
- Clinics care points
- Reducing Risks of Facial Scarring
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Risks for Specific Procedures
- Reducing Surgical Risks in the Rhinoplasty Patient
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative considerations
- Intraoperative considerations
- Postoperative considerations
- Summary points
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Surgical Risks for Septal and Turbinate Surgery
- Key points
- Preoperative considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Financial disclosures, conflicts of interest
- Reducing Surgical Risks in a Blepharoplasty
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Surgical Risks in a Rhytidectomy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Nerve injury
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Surgical Risks for Otoplasty
- Key points
- Introduction
- Recurrence
- Overcorrection
- Summary
- Disclosures
- Clinics care points
- Reducing Surgical Risks for Hair Replacement Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- History of hair replacement surgery
- Preoperative evaluation
- General complications among all hair restoration surgical techniques
- Wound complications and scarring in hair transplantation surgery
- Telogen effluvium
- Nerve injury
- Folliculitis, cysts, and ingrown hairs
- Poor growth of hair
- Poor cosmetic outcome
- Postoperative care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Reducing Risks for Local Skin Flap Failure
- Key points
- Background
- Surgical technique
- Management Strategies When Skin Flap Compromise Is Recognized Postoperatively
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Risks of Graft Failure for Composite Skin–Cartilage Grafts
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Risk in Facial Reanimation Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Preoperative evaluation
- Surgical planning and intraoperative considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Reducing Risks for Midface and Mandible Fracture Repair
- Key points
- Introduction
- Systematic approach to midface and mandible fractures
- Summary
- Funding
- Clinics care points
- Reducing Systemic Risks in a Traumatic Panfacial Injury Patient
- Key points
- Introduction
- Timing of surgery
- Airway management
- Optimizing respiratory function
- Initial resuscitation
- Monitoring
- Management: hemorrhage
- Transport to the operating room
- Postoperative intensive care unit care
- Daily rounding intensive care unit checklists
- Intensive care unit goals of resuscitation
- Postoperative transfusion strategy
- Postoperative infection
- Postoperative respiratory failure
- Liberation from mechanical ventilation
- Nutrition
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Risk for Perioperative Anesthesia Complications
- Key points
- General considerations
- Practice guidelines for outpatient surgery
- Basic anesthesia objectives in facial plastic surgery
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Reducing Legal Risks and Social Media Issues for Cosmetic Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Legal risks
- Risk management techniques
- Social media
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 31-2
- Published: April 3, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323938792
- eBook ISBN: 9780323938808
DH
David B. Hom
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery , Co-Director, Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery , Department Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, University of California San Diego School of MedicineDW
Deborah Watson
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Residency Program Director, Co-Director, Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery , Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery