The number of victims in Yakutia from deep freezing of extremities from the beginning of 2023 to February 9 amounted to 133 people, the Yakut-Sakha news agency reports on February 10.
According to the director of the burn center, Svetlana Semyonova, since the beginning of this year, the center has received 100 more people than in the same period last year.
Recall that in the Soviet years, the Yakut scientist Revo Alekseev developed a unique technique for preserving limbs subject to glaciation, and until 2013 he successfully applied it in his practice.
According to Revo Alekseev, frozen hands and feet can be saved by wrapping the frozen limb in heat-insulating material, then putting the victim into a medical sleep so that the person does not feel pain, and waiting for the body to begin to warm the body. affected area from the inside. Outside, it is necessary to maintain a low temperature, and inside the blood will bring heat, warm the vessels, they will come to life and expand.
It should be noted that according to the existing method, patients with intravital glaciation are amputated in order to avoid necrosis of the affected limbs.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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