OT: Photos of Mike Bruesewitz' leg injury (CAUTION: graphic!)
Recently, when it was announced that Wisconsin basketball player Mike Bruesewitz had a leg injury, details weren't known at the time other than some people calling it a laceration.
Well, pictures of the injury have surfaced on the interwebz. Click through at your own caution. They're safe for work, but if you don't like medical TV shows, they may not be safe for your stomach.
I won't embed in the post, just in case people want another chance to shy away.
http://www.barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/super-page/pics-of-wisconsins-m…
Why do you need to post this?
Because it is awesome.
You oversold this. It's a bad injury, but I've seen worse.
i agree. i have a weak stomach but that wasnt too bad.
Mother of god...
I can't figure out what's wrong though?
Totally looks like surgery to correct compartment syndrome. My girlfriend had problems with that, and I made the mistake of googling it when she told me about it. Her "don't google it" came about 5 seconds too late.
I'm no surgeon, but I've definitely seen worse pictures online. That Louisville player, for instance, was much gnarlier.
I think it's very "natural" for people with a medical education background.. because at least for me, fasciotomies remind me of first year anatomy lab... However, I can see how someone who hasn't gone through med school would find the whole thing horrific.
When people study medicine(and other health professions I assume) you go through a process of detaching what you're seeing with your eyes from what you imagine yourself experiencing. The layman sees a surgery or an injury and he immediately puts himself in the position of the injured or the person being operated on. Most doctors on the other hand see an injury and think "how can I fix this?" "what can I do to help?" It took me awhile to go through that process.... and awhile more to understand it once it happened.
No regrets. Though not for the faint of heart...especially arm and abdominal.
No Complaints here...
Looked at it and didn't even grimace.
I've been on the internet too much...
What. The. Hell?!?
Is that what vaginas look like in Wisconsin?
Isn't that what they look like everywhere a few days a month?
Not after they visit Fox Valley!
This thread is totally unnecessary. I want to forget that guy ever lived.
Brutal stitch job - obviously not a University of Michigan medical graduate.
My cat's spay job looks better.
Yeah, but you gotta remember that the calf is subject to a ton of flexion and stress, and it's not a high scar tissue problem area. You need to stitch it strong so it can handle stretching during the healing process, and it's not a big deal if you get a gangly scar on there.
Plus, if that's cotton stitching, it'll heal into the wound a bit and hurt like hell to remove. In that case, you want as few stitches as possible.
I don't know. My stitch job done after knee surgery at UM hospital didn't look much better, and the only reason it was a bit more uniform is because they used about 20 staples to sew up the 10" or so incision. Thirty years later and almost all the staple entry points are still clearly visible. Of course it probably wasn't a graduate, but a student who sewed me up.
How ironic. My company produces a nerve stimulator/locator that surgeons use intra-operatively to both locate nerves and do threshold testing. Today at lunch I'm eating my lunch while watching videos of procedures for possible posting on our website that were exponentially more graphic than that picture and featured lots of live footage of open wounds. As I'm sitting there eating my leftover no fat spinich pie it dawns on me that a couple of years ago I would've puked instantly seeing what I was watching and now it's no big deal at all.
I dare you to lick it.
is anywhere near as difficult to look at as his hair, i will pass.
looks 'shopped.
There are laws that protect patient confidentiality.
These photos were taken by someone with access to the patient in the operating room.
They certainoly should not be on the internet.
Whoever made them public could be in big trouble.
It's bad, but I didn't wince either. One of the pitfalls of the utility industry is that we get to see the results of accidents either in person or through reviews and safety bulletins sometimes. We had a line clearance contractor that did this very thing to his arm last month - the photos were distributed.
Nooooope nope nope nope.
because that didn't really phase me. Call me back when another Wisconsin player is eating the flesh off of Brusewitz's leg!
who's leg?
note: large skin incision to perform fasciotomies of lateral and perhaps anterior compartments of calf.
may have a medial incision as well.
tissues all look healthy- note blood on skin was due to the aseptic prep that was done of this open wound.
fairly inelegant skin closure.
unclear why faciotomies were done but possibly trauma- note leg does not look injured.
these photos of a sugical procedure are clearly HIPPA protected, private information.
it is illegal to take these photos or make them public without written permission.
these photos are of a closure of a surgical wound. one photo shows fascia or muscle being cut with scissors. this may represent the delayed closure of a wound.
there does not appear to be a compartment syndrome present but perhaps fasciotomies were made previously and now the muscle injury is completely resolved.
I've seen worse at a GWAR show...
I've seen worse on Shark Week.
Not quite on Kevin Ware level, but certainly gruesome. I wish him all the best in his recovery.