Practicals · Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Microvascular surgery
Free flap planning and harvest
- Type
- Procedure
- Curriculum level
- perform independently (DrNB operative skills); PI - perform independently (NMC)
- Also called
- free tissue transfer, microvascular free flap
Videos and resources
- VideoAnterolateral thigh perforator flap harvest3:56
- VideoRadial forearm flap harvest3:42
- +66 more links
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Where the curriculum asks for it
“Planning and Harvest of free flaps of various regions.” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 21)
“Microvascular (free) tissue transfers” ( NBEMS DrNB curriculum, page 18)
“muscle flaps, osseous flaps, free flaps, perforator flaps” ( NMC DM/MCh guidelines, page 8)