SELECTIVE NON-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT FOR PENETRATING EXTREMITY TRAUMA (SNOM-PET)

We appreciate the comments by Dickson and colleagues in their letter to the editor on our published article.1 We agree with them that non-operative management is a pragmatic approach for penetrating trauma and our paper is the first documented attempt to apply this approach to a UK trauma population. It is inevitable and appropriate that conservative management of trauma is scrutinized as it is counter to most current plastic surgical doctrine, though conservative management of other types of trauma is commonplace.

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