“What injuries do ophthalmologists in the military encounter most often: Professor Rykov answered, 90% of operations in the military are related to combined head injuries. Treatment and rehabilitation of such injuries can take decades, requiring a multidisciplinary approach.”, — write on: unn.ua
“Among all operations performed by the military, there are very few isolated, that is, purely eye injuries, about 10%, and 90% are combined head injuries. And here we work together with a maxillofacial surgeon, neurosurgeons and ENTs, that is, a multidisciplinary approach.This is what we do in many clinics, including in the regional hospital (in Kyiv – ed.) together with the department of Maxillofacial Surgery and the Department of Ophthalmology (Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry of Postgraduate Education of O.O. Bogomolets NMU – ed.) We have general work, Professor Oksana Petrenko works a lot and Professor Dmytro Zhmuryk, we have wonderful young people,” said Rykov .
He noted that the main thing in such operations is reconstruction.
“What we are doing now is a decade of work, because we are doing a certain stage, it will not end in a week, in a month, because there are reparative problems, scarring, then plastic surgery. We need to bring the face to a cosmetic appearance and this decade. Indeed, we are operating now and there is no problem to operate,” Rykov noted.
According to him, the problem will be the rehabilitation of these patients, because special hospitals and a multidisciplinary approach are needed.
“Because a patient, like in America, comes to a hospital, there is even an optometrist who chooses glasses for them, because a contused person is already completely different, a different approach is needed. That is, we need such hospitals with a multidisciplinary approach after military operations,” said Rykov .
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