Czech doctors in Ukraine - MEDEVAC mission.

Abstract

A multidisciplinary medical team from several Czech hospitals participated in a mission to a hospital in the Ukrainian town of Vynnyky as part of the MEDEVAC project. Civilian patients were provided with specialized surgical care in cooperation with plastic surgeons for injuries related to combat operations and without it. A case of a complex open fracture of the forearm bones with extensive defect of soft tissues and skeleton in a 32-year-old civilian patient is briefly described.