Journal of Global Medical Education and Research

Inhalation injury causes a heterogeneous cascade of insults that increase morbidity and mortality among the burn population. Despite major advancements in burn care over the last several decades, there remains a significant burden of disease attributable to inhalation injury. For this reason, an effort has been devoted to finding new therapeutic approaches to improve outcomes for patients who sustain inhalation injuries. Scald burns of the face and neck are associated with laryngeal edema difficulty in respiration. We share our experience with scald burns with inhalation injury.

Ulcer is a discontinuity in the skin. It may be acute or chronic. Chronic wounds are associated with difficulty in healing and prolonged morbidity for the patient. There are different methods of wound coverage including flap coverage, skin grafting, temporary substitutes for dressing etc. In this article we have used SEBG for healing of wound and have found it to be useful.

Appendicitis is an acute in flammation of the appendix that can lead to an abscess, ileus, peritonitis, or death. Appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency, with a lifetime risk of approximately 3.18 per 1000 per year in 1st year, 4.17 per 1000 per year in second and 3.85 per 1000 per year in 3rd year. Hence, it remained almost stable during the study period of 3 years.

The smartphone is a method of communication that is widely used, popular and almost all the doctors and most of the patients or the attenders usea smartphone now a days. The increasing internet penetration into the population is making the smartphones more of a necessity than a luxury. Medical science is a dynamic field that gets influenced by the advancements of technology. There is always an unrelenting try to make patient care easy, fast safe, cost effective, and reproducible. So the smartphones are emerging as a team member of health care system. We have conducted a study by using the smart phone based on android and IOS in following up the patients who under went treatment in the Department of Plastic surgery in a tertiary care center in South India. From March 2020 to April 2021. In this article, we share our experience of using the smart phones for patient follow up as well as how to utilize a smart phone to make patient follow-up,safe, effective, easy, reproducible.