{"id":137676,"date":"2024-03-14T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137676"},"modified":"2024-03-17T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T07:30:13","slug":"honduran-patient-regains-use-of-finger-following-successful-operation-by-navy-medicine-surgeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137676","title":{"rendered":"Honduran Patient Regains Use of Finger Following Successful Operation by Navy Medicine Surgeons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Feb. 27, 2024, U.S. Navy Capt. Bradley Deafenbaugh, an orthopedic surgeon with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NRTMC) Portsmouth, and Capt. Jamie Fitch, a general surgeon with (NMRTC) Camp Lejeune, conducted an operation reconnecting 19-year-old Renaldo Mu\u00f1oz severed tendon. Mu\u00f1oz was injured in a work-related incident one week prior, which resulted in the immobilization of his finger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was at work and accidently cut my hand with a machete. We came to the hospital, and they gave me first response treatment,\u201d explained Mu\u00f1oz. \u201cAbout half an hour after I was discharged, I realized my finger wasn\u2019t moving. I thought it was just too swollen to move, but the next day I got worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mu\u00f1oz came back to the hospital where Capt. Fitch scheduled an appointment with the EMU orthopedist to operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepairs of this kind are generally done by plastic surgery at their hospital,\u201d Fitch said. \u201cBut because there is only one plastic surgeon, I was told he may have to wait several months to have the tendon repaired. Instead, we placed a splint on his hand to maintain neutral position and asked him to come back on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the successful operation performed by Deafenbaugh and Fitch, Mu\u00f1oz had mobility in his index finger again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe specific injury was an index finger extensor tendon laceration, which we repaired,\u201d added Deafenbaugh. \u201cHis recovery time should be about three months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mu\u00f1oz expressed his gratitude toward the EMU surgeons for being able to care for him so quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad the doctors were able to fix my finger,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that the operation is finished, I want to recover completely so I can get back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

EMU 10 G conducted its first GHE to enhance expeditionary core skills and knowledge exchange with Honduran healthcare professionals in a limited resource environment, Feb. 17-March 2, 2024. EMUs consist of health services and support personnel, and contains deployable medical materiel configured to provide flexible, modular, and scalable forward resuscitative care capabilities.<\/p>\n

Navy Medicine \u2014 represented by more than 44,000 highly-trained military and civilian health care professionals \u2014 provides enduring expeditionary medical support to the
warfighter on, below, and above the sea, and ashore.<\/p>\n

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On Feb. 27, 2024, U.S. Navy Capt. Bradley Deafenbaugh, an orthopedic surgeon with Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NRTMC) Portsmouth, and Capt. Jamie Fitch, a general surgeon with (NMRTC) Camp Lejeune, conducted an operation reconnecting 19-year-old Renaldo Mu\u00f1oz severed tendon. Mu\u00f1oz was injured in a work-related incident one week prior, which resulted in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":137678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137679,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137676\/revisions\/137679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}