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#SoMe4Trauma is a #SoMe4Surgery initiative that aims to bring Trauma Surgery into focus on social media. @me4_so @a160186 @juliomayol
Oct 31, 2019 11 tweets 9 min read
Welcome to the first tweetorial in our Critical Care Corner. Stay tuned for this spooky Halloween thread, hosted by none other than the Addams Family.

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#SoMe4Surgery Our topic for today is the “festering” problem of necrotizing fasciitis (NF) otherwise known as “flesh eating bacteria syndrome”. It is a life threatening soft tissue infection,with a mortality rate ranging from 8.6-76% in the literature(median 32.2%)

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