Cooking, DIY, driving; These everyday activities can cause a lot of trauma to our hands. Some can be minor such as bites, cuts, sprained fingers or burns, but others can be more severe and require major interventions, or even in the most extreme cases, amputation.
Each year, in France, between 1.5 and 2 million people are affected by hand accidents. How to protect your hands? What is the primary cause of hand injuries? In the event of an accident, what are the first actions to take?
- Dr Patrick Knipper, Surgeon specializing in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and Hand Surgeon at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris. President ofInterplast-France / Chirurgie Sans Frontières, NGO for reconstructive surgery in developing countries.
- Pr Anatole Kibadi Kapay, Plastic Surgeon. Hand surgeon. Member of the French Society of Hand Surgery. Honorary President of the African Society of Hand Surgery. President of the Hand Surgery Society of the DRC. Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Kinshasa
►At the end of the program, we take stock of the vaccination recommendations published yesterday by the High Authority of Health in a context of increasing cases of dengue fever in Overseas Territories. Interview with Professor Anne-Claude Crémieuxprofessor of infectious diseases and President of the technical commission on vaccinations (CTV) at the HAS.
Music programming :
► Bill Withers – Grandma’s hands
► Guilty – Lego
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