Percutaneous - Miami Injury Lawyer

Miami Accident Lawyer Justin Ziegler has experience representing injured accident victims who has had percutaneous surgeries performed on them.  In terms of surgery, the word percutaneous means a medical procedure where the access to organs or tissues is performed through needle puncture pertains to any medical procedure where access to inner organs or other tissue is done via needle-puncture of the skin. Percutaneous surgery is different than traditional open surgery, where the inner tissue or organs are exposed. Open surgery usually uses a knife or scalpel. 

There are new ways of fixation for scaphoid fractures which are illustrative of the modern change in taking care of wrist injuries in the last 30 years.  Surgical procedures with percutaneous surgery allow a quick getting well without having the hand restrained in a cast.   

Surgical treatment with percutaneous surgery enables rapid healing without the confinement of a cast. Images through fluoroscopy can be utilized to mark the inserting point for screws (through a small incision) into the bone to give it stability.  After the surgery is complete, the patient is able to heal while wearing a splint which may be removed.  This surgery can take place is less than 1 hour.  Prior to percutaneous surgery, open procedures were necessary and patients needed to wear a cast for to two or three months following the operation.  Some doctors say the healing rates for the percutaneous scaphoid fracture can be one hundred percent.  Unfortunately, for our client who suffered personal injury at Denny's restaurant, this was not the case. He now needs a 2nd surgery. 

Many fractures are treated using percutaneous fixation techniques, such as those of the metacarpals and the phalanges.  When there are severe breaks in the finger joints, the person's finger may be placed in an external fixator apparatus, and the doctor may use fluoroscopy to guide placement of the wires.  A percutaneous surgery is known as a vascular procedure procedure because it involves the needle catheter having access to blood vessels, to be followed by wire which comes through the lumen of a needle.  On top of the wire other catheters are placed into the blood vessel.  The use of this technique is called the Seldinger technique.