This can be extensive. Surgeries involving crush injuries have a much lower rate of success, with less chance of survival of the replanted digit or hand and less recovery of function, as compared to sharp injuries. Walking can be difficult when the foot or leg is shorteded because of tissue removal. Some patients, following limb amputation, will not be able to walk or run until an artificial leg has bee fitted. Surgery Surgery may last between 4 to 24 hours.
Longer operations are necessary when multiple individual digits have been amputated.
The surgery is frequently done with several operating teams. This decreases the overall surgery time needed. Before surgery the patient' s injuries are cleaned very carefully to avoid deep infection. Any fractured bones are stabilized first, using small pins or metal plates. Next the tendons are repaired.