The surgeon told what mistakes fighters make when applying turnstiles

This was told by the surgeon of the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Northern Region Mykola Zaitsev at the conference "Modern Trends in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery / Surgery on the Edge" in Kharkiv.

“Turnstile syndrome remains one of the serious complications during combat trauma of the extremities. Moreover, the frequency is only increasing as a result of the dominance of drones on the battlefield and the deterioration of evacuation measures," Zaitsev said.

According to him, the use of FPV drones significantly increased the "shoulder" of evacuation compared to 2022-2023. The number of amputations due to turnstile syndrome has increased by almost 50% over the past year.

“If we talk about the mistakes that we see when patients come to us: very often turnstiles are overlaid too high relative to the wound. There are cases of explosive injury to the foot, ankle joint as a result of an explosion on explosive devices, but fighters impose a turnstile according to the rule "as tight as possible, as high as possible" – at the level of the upper third of the hip. This often leads to very high amputations or even exarticulations (removal of part or all of the limb by separating it in the joint, – Ed.), which subsequently leads to difficulties during prosthetics”, – said the specialist.