Today, we were visited by Dr.Slauterbeck. Dr.Slauterbeck is an orthopedic surgeon and here to discuss the surgery Connor will be experiencing.
B A C K G R O U N D
Dr. Slauterbeck used to play football at Arizona State and graduated with a degree in chemistry, which he was not a fan of. He then went to New Mexico and got his orthopedic degree then transferred to UCLA for the next twenty-years. He acted as there sports post doc and a trauma surgeon while sitting on the sidelines. He has now been in Mobile for the past two years as the head chair at South Alabama College.
T H E P R O C E D U R E
To begin the procedure to head the surgery, they must begin to clean the wound. This is done with lactated ringers, or soap and water, then washed out with around nine liters of water.
The surgery will be both external and internal and include plates, pins and roads, a tibial nail, and the insertion of an external-fixator.
The team that will usually preform this will be the orthopedic surgeon, a nurse as the circulatory, an anesthesiologist, a scrub tech, and there may be an extra ortho surgeon on the side in case extra help is needed.
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