跟读练习: What should you do if you accidentally cut off your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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After a long day helping patients in the emergency room, Priya is prepping dinner when her knife slips and neatly severs her finger.
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After a long day helping patients in the emergency room, Priya is prepping dinner when her knife slips and neatly severs her finger.
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Fortunately, being an ER doctor, she knows exactly what to do.
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First, she cleans the wound with a wet paper towel and bandages her finger— careful not to wrap the wound too tightly.
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To manage the pain.
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she knows not to take ibuprofen, which would prevent the wound from clotting, and instead opts for acetaminophen.
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Then she rinses off the severed finger, wraps it in a clean, moist towel, and puts it in a cooler while avoiding direct contact with ice.
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Finally, she rushes to the hospital, where luckily, a skilled hand surgeon is on staff.
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Thanks to the clean cut and Priya's rapid response, the surgeon can get to work.
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They set the bones and fix them in place with wires before repairing the tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and finally, the skin.
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The entire incident is finished in about eight hours, and after a few months of occupational therapy, Priya's hand is back in action.
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This is the ideal outcome for reattaching a body part.
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Unfortunately, it’s also incredibly unlikely— and not just because most people aren’t as prepared as Priya.
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In reality, there are countless complications that come up with most accidental amputations.
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First, there's the accident.
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Unlike Priya's clean cut, most traumatic amputations occur in car crashes or industrial accidents that cause extensive, uneven tissue damage and dirty the wound in a way that prevents reattachment.
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Plus, more than half of all limb amputations in the United States are due to disease, and limbs removed for medical reasons obviously aren’t safe to reattach.
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Then, there’s preserving the limb.
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When a body part is severed, its blood circulation is cut off, stopping the influx of oxygen and other nutrients.
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Surprisingly, severed tissues can survive for a few hours without these resources.
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And keeping them cool further slows the rate of tissue death, generally giving surgeons a 6-to-12-hour window for reattachment.
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But once the tissues die, reconnecting them won’t bring them back to life.
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This tight timeline is especially challenging for surgeons.
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Due to the issues we’ve already mentioned, reattachment operations are fairly uncommon.
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So most hospitals don’t have the tools and expertise required to tackle these time-sensitive procedures.
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And even if they do, nerve repair is extremely tricky.
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With perfectly clean cuts, surgeons can attempt to stitch nerves back together directly.
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And when a cut is ragged, they may try to create nerve conduits— tunnels between nerve ends that can allow the nerves to reconnect over time.
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But neither these, nor any other surgical options, reliably restore movement and sensation.
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All these obstacles make it highly unlikely that a lost limb can be reattached.
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However, medical technology has developed another dependable solution for amputation: prosthetics.
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Today, prostheses come in countless forms to replace numerous body parts.
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Prosthetic legs are excellent for walking and running.
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Prosthetic arms have historically struggled to replicate our hands’ fine motor movements.
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However, new myoelectric prostheses can detect electrical activity in nearby muscles and then translate those signals into relatively precise movements.
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But perhaps the most dramatic development in prosthetic technology is transcutaneous osseointegration.
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First successfully performed in 1990, this procedure surgically anchors a metal implant into the bone of the remaining limb.
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The bone then grows into the crevices of the metal, creating a permanent connection.
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These implants extend through a portal in the skin, and can be attached to any prosthesis, which solves a handful of common prosthetic issues.
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Where traditional prosthetics can be heavy, providing a direct skeletal connection makes their weight feel more natural.
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Osseointegrated prosthetics are also less likely to irritate the skin where they attach, and they can offer more sensation by transmitting forces like vibration through the implant to the bone.
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Even with all these new technologies, not everyone wants to replace or reattach a lost limb.
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After an amputation, some people opt to rely on their remaining limbs, with or without the help of mobility aids and other adaptive equipment.
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