Surgical Flaps

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This product is intended for use by medical professionals. It represents a descriptive and illustrative guide to the relevant surgical techniques. It is not intended to replace textbooks and other exhaustive resources devoted to this subject. Users who are inexperienced and unfamiliar with the techniques outlined in this App, ‘Surgical Flaps’ should seek additional guidance and supervision prior to embarking on these procedures on living subjects. This product is only an educational tool and cannot offer the user the full competence needed to perform the procedures described. Surgicalillusration.com cannot and will not hold itself responsible for any indiscriminatory act(s) by user(s).

 


Surgical flaps is now available in the app store for both the iphone and the ipad.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/surgical-flaps/id506102623?mt=8

Surgical Flaps has now been reviewed on imedicalapps.com. follow this link to read the full article - 
http://www.imedicalapps.com/2012/04/surgical-flaps-great-tool-students-junior-residents-visually-understand-flap-surgery/

Surgical flaps


Surgical Flaps is a unique App presenting the science and art involved in designing local flaps. Local flaps are useful in the reconstruction of various skin defects. In designing local flaps there is a need to preserve the blood supply of the tissues to ensure viability of the transferred tissue. Also, the flaps should be designed in such a way to produce the best aesthetic and functional outcome. Local Flap Surgery has been developed to address this. 'Surgical Flaps' is an educational tool which takes the User on a journey exploring the techniques involved in the design of 22 commonly used local flaps in modern surgical practice


The app outlines:
• The basic principles of transferring tissues locally
• The design patterns of the various types of local flaps
• The safe length ratios and angles that should be used
• Common anatomical locations where some flaps are favoured

The work is presented in 3 different ways for the user to increase his/her understanding:

Still diagrams
Pre- and pre-operative illustrations

State-of-the-art animations
Starting with the excision of the lesions and proceeding with the incisions made, the transferring of the tissues and the final outcome. There are 21 animations in total.

Text to explain the procedure.
A written description of how to design the flap.

This app is carefully constructed to optimise the understanding of these complex surgical procedures.

'Surgical Flaps' would be particularly useful to:

Practicing Plastic Surgeons
Trainee Plastic Surgeons / Surgical Residents
Dermatological Surgeons and Dermatologists
Moh’s Dermatological Surgeons and Trainees
Orthopaedic Surgeons
Maxillo-facial Surgeons
Gynaecological Surgeons
Urological Surgeons
Oncological Plastic Surgeons
General Surgeons
Neurosurgeons
Medical Students
Specialist Surgical Nurses

Example animations from the app

Zplasty

H flap

2 Flap rhomboid