Please Help Dog Attack Injuries

[want2know]

There are instructions in my wound protocol on how to use a loose skin flap as a skin graft. Go back and read step #4. If the flap is pink and not white or black, meaning it still has a blood supply, its use as a graft greatly speeds up healing.

But the flap us bent back and will not go back.

There are instructions in my wound protocol on how to use a loose skin flap as a skin graft. Go back and read step #4. If the flap is pink and not white or black, meaning it still has a blood supply, its use as a graft greatly speeds up healing.

I did read #4 and am doing all according to instructions, but I tried to put the flap back and secure with a thick layer of bag balm, but it is bent like a crease in paper. what if its growing back that way? Without sewing it back into place it will not stay is what I guess I'm trying to say.

 

[want2know]

There are instructions in my wound protocol on how to use a loose skin flap as a skin graft. Go back and read step #4. If the flap is pink and not white or black, meaning it still has a blood supply, its use as a graft greatly speeds up healing.

 

[azygous]

You are there with your chicken. I am not. Only you can be the judge whether the flap is still viable (alive). It sounds from your description that it may no longer be of any use if it has no flexibility. But it would be worth trying anyway if you aren't sure.

To get the flap to stay in place, use a lot of Bag Balm, first on the wound, then over the top of the flap which will hold the flap down. You may need to reapply the ointment a few times before it stays down. By the third or fourth day, if the flap is viable, it will "take". Keep putting the ointment on it every day until it's healed.