Necrotizing Bacteria Women Loses Her Leg After Zip Line Accident

Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as flesh-eating disease or flesh-eating bacteria syndrome is a rare infection of the deeper layers of skin and subcutaneous tissues, easily spread across the fascial plane within the subcutaneous tissue subcutaneous.
Plastic surgeons treat a variety of conditions. Often best known for its aesthetic aspect of reconstructive plastic surgery is often overlooked. On 1 May 2012, 24 year old Aimee Copeland from a zip line in the Little Tallapoosa River in Georgia.
She suffered a cut on my leg, needed to finish with 22 hooks. Unfortunately, a very dangerous bacteria from the infected wound to cause necrotizing fasciitis. Necrotizing fasciitis is essentially a plastic surgeon nightmare. It is also commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria known or gangrene. In this type of infection, bacteria can grow very quickly into the depths of the tissue and causes tissue death.
The dead tissue must be removed as soon as possible if a person is to have a chance to survive. Treatment involves removal of infected tissue frequently, is to contain the infection. As with Aimee, who lost his left leg at the hip and some abdominal tissues, necrotizing fasciitis can often people lose arms, legs and even genitals.
This is where the plastic surgeon comes in - removing dead tissue and reconstruction of areas after the tissue is debrided. This is the side of plastic surgery that is not glamorous, but fulfilling.