SOUTHLAND BRIEFLY\Severely burned boy undergoes surgery.Byline: Daily News SHERMAN OAKS - Michael Halsell, the Newbury Park teen-ager shocked by 220,000 volts of electricity while attempting to rappel down an electrical tower, underwent three hours of surgery Wednesday in which doctors removed dead tissue and covered his burns with cadaver cadaver /ca·dav·er/ (kah-dav´er) a dead body; generally applied to a human body preserved for anatomical study.cadav´ericcadav´erous ca·dav·er n. skin. While the third-degree burns third-degree burns npl → brûlures fpl au troisième degré third-degree burns third npl → Verbrennungen pl dritten Grades that scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. 85 percent of his body are the 17-year-old boy's most visible injuries, Monday's jolt from a Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. tower in Ventura County also severely damaged Halsell's internal organs, said Dr. A. Richard Grossman, medical director of the Grossman Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks Hopital (SOH) is an 153 bed acute care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, USA and is home of world renowned the Grossman Burn Center. SOH is owned and operated by Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. . During the procedure, four surgical teams used 5 square feet of cadaver skin, obtained from tissue banks, to cover the teen's scorched ears, face, arms and chest. The cadaver skin is used to prevent infection and make open wounds less painful, Grossman said. Halsell, who was given morphine for the pain, breathed through a tube and slept "comfortably" after the operation, with his eyes swollen shut, Grossman said. |
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