Prashant Kumar
Anaesthesia specialty registrar in the West of Scotland (Glasgow), airway fellowship-trained, and author of the BJA Education article on anaesthesia for major maxillofacial cancer surgery.
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Oct 5, 2026
Sam FoscaHOST
What does good flap monitoring look like on the ward, and do the timescales differ much? And what makes the difference between a salvaged flap and a lost one?
Prashant KumarGUEST
I, I think time, time is, time is key, isn't it? And, um, so, uh, the question is, is how...
Prashant KumarGUEST
Again, it co- you know, it comes back to what I think is really important, which is the system you put in place to re- mitigate any risk of, of unseen flap compromise, right? So for example, having...
Prashant KumarGUEST
So, you know, and, and thinking about it from the whole, from the whole journey, so how, how does it...
Prashant KumarGUEST
How is it when you leave theater? And so, for example, one of the things that we're pretty good at now is that, 'cause every flap's different.
6 MINS LATER
Sam FoscaHOST
How do you navigate this and other specific areas that are challenging in this patient population?