What is the prognosis for a patient with a traumatic amputation?

Answer 1

First aid or emergency care given immediately after the amputation has a critical impact on both the physicians' ability to salvage and reattach the severed part(s) and the patient's ability to regain feeling and function.

Answer 2

When the patient and the amputated part(s) reach the hospital, an Emergency Department physician will assess the probability that the severed tissue can be successfully reattached. The Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS) assigns.

Answer 3

five year survival rate for all lower extremity amputees is less than 50%. For diabetic amputees, the rate is less than 40%. Up to 50% of people who have one leg amputated because of Diabetes will lose the other within five years

Answer 4

Except in cases where the infection has been allowed to spread through the blood stream, prognosis is generally favorable. Anaerobic wound infection can progress quickly from initial injury to gas gangrene within one to two days.

Answer 5

Improved medical and surgical care and rehabilitation have improved the long-term outlook for these patients.