Trauma Care

Trauma care involves the management of injuries to promote healing, prevent complications, and minimize scarring. It covers a range of minor and severe injuries. Severe and complex injuries resulting from trauma require extensive reconstructive surgical repair.

Our board-certified surgeon performs reconstructive procedures and hand surgery to restore the form and function of tissues and structures affected by trauma and injuries of all types.

At Kimball Health Services, we take a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, ranging from emergency medical services to reconstructive plastic surgery, to address your injuries.

Reconstructive Surgery for Trauma

Injuries caused by trauma can be severe. In such cases, immediate and comprehensive care is crucial to improve recovery outcomes and minimize complications.

Reconstructive surgery is crucial for the management of such injuries and plays a role in the continued care of your wounds. It helps restore form and function to areas affected by trauma. The focus involves repairing and rebuilding the injured tissue, including tendons, nerves, arteries/veins, and bones.

Your injuries may be a result of an accident, chronic conditions, violence, or other physical events, including surgical procedures. Whatever their origin, they require specialized attention to prevent infections, optimize healing, and mitigate long-term consequences.

Types of Trauma

At Kimball Health Services, we provide trauma care for various types of injuries, with treatment procedures tailored to the type, location, and severity of your trauma.

Facial trauma resulting from direct blunt or sharp objects can lead to severe facial deformity and soft tissue loss. Lacerations around the eyes, nose, ears, and lips require careful surgical intervention and repair to minimize impairment of form and function.

Upper limb trauma caused by injuries to your hands, wrists, and arms requires expert care to restore function and mobility. Hand surgery may be needed in the case of fractures, infections, and repetitive use injuries affecting your tendons, nerves, arteries, and bones.

These injuries can be caused by power tools, dog bites, traffic accidents, and falls. Our board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon has extensive expertise in hand surgery and related procedures.

Burn injuries require specialized reconstructive procedures to minimize scarring, restore skin functionality, and address the unique challenges posed by such injuries.

The management of burns may involve resuscitation, infection control, support for the hyper-metabolic response, and closure of burn injuries using skin grafts and flaps. Severe burns have the potential to cause deep injuries.

Surgery wounds caused by procedures such as tumor removal may also need reconstructive surgery to restore normal shape and function.

Reconstructive Procedures for Trauma

Reconstructive procedures we employ to address your injuries and wounds include:

Skin Grafts: Transplanting skin from one area of your body to cover wounds or defects in another area
Flap Surgery: Transferring tissue, including skin, muscle, or bone, from one part of the body to another to reconstruct larger or more complex defects
Facial Reconstruction: Repairing facial injuries and deformities, often involving a combination of soft tissue and bone reconstruction
Hand & Upper Extremity Reconstruction: Addressing injuries to the hand and upper extremities, including nerve repair, tendon reconstruction, and joint stabilization

Comprehensive Trauma Care

It is crucial to emphasize that trauma care represent a holistic and comprehensive approach to injury recovery. The healing process may require multiple steps and involve additional surgical interventions to restore full function.

Additional surgeries may include general surgery and orthopedic surgery to facilitate your recovery and reconstruct the affected areas effectively. Physical therapy also plays a crucial role in recovery and rehabilitation.

Expert Trauma Care in Kimball, NE

Serious injuries caused by accidents or trauma often require reconstructive surgery to restore the form and function of the affected area. At Kimball Health Services, our team is skilled in a range of reconstructive plastic surgery and hand surgery procedures.

In case of an emergency, call 911 or walk into our emergency department anytime. To schedule a consultation with our healthcare providers, please contact us at 308-235-1966 or request an appointment online. We’re here for you whenever you need us.