Our Services A - Z - Mersey Regional Plastic Surgery Trauma Assessment Unit
About the service
The Plastic Surgery Trauma Assessment Unit is part of the Mersey Regional Burns, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Centre which serves a population of approximately 5 million people.
We are a primary assessment unit for patients with traumatic injuries that may require reconstructive, plastic or hand surgery.
Patients who attend the Trauma Unit do so with varying injuries including hand injuries, facial injuries, head/scalp lacerations, leg lacerations, human and dog bites, hand infections and more. Patients are referred to us from all accident and emergency departments from across Cheshire, Merseyside, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
Patients who attend the Trauma Unit are assessed by the Plastics Team and a plan is made as to whether they need surgery, or if they are to be managed conservatively. If surgery is necessary patients are added onto a waiting list with other patients. The list is based on clinical priority.
- About the Team
The team is made up of Consultant Plastic Surgeons, Junior Doctors, Trauma Co-ordinator, Nursing Staff, Physiotherapists and Administration Staff.
- Location and Contact details
Whiston Hospital, Level 3 - Green Zone
Opening times - Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm
Contact number - 0151 430 1642
- Additional information
On your first attendance to Whiston Hospital, you will be required to register in the A&E department before attending the Plastic Surgery Trauma Assessment Unit. Please allow yourself enough time to do this before the appointment time that you have been given by the referring clinical team.
If your injury is severe enough for you to be kept in hospital you will be transferred to the Plastic Surgery Ward 3A for admission.
- Relevant Leaflets/Documents/Links
Title - Advice and Exercises after Breast Reconstruction with a Latissimus Dorsi Flap
Description - You are having surgery to reconstruct your breast. Part of one of the muscles on your back, latissimus dorsi, along with the overlying skin and blood vessels, is used to reconstruct the shape of the breast. You may also have an implant or a tissue expander placed under the muscle on the chest wall.Title - Advice and Exercises after Breast Reconstruction with a TUG Flap
Description - You are having to reconstruct your breast. Some of the skin and soft tissue from your inner thigh (transverse upper gracilis muscle) along with the underlying blood vessels is used to construct the shape of your breast.Title - Complementary Therapies Provision on Wards 3A and 4D Whiston Hospital
Description - As the name implies, these therapies are designed to complement and be used alongside the normal medical treatments. All complementary therapies are ‘complementary’ to a patient’s treatment and care and not a replacement for conventional treatment.Title - Discharge advice for nasal surgery patients
Description - Discharge advice for patients post surgeryTitle - Eye Care in facial palsy
Description - Our eyes need to be kept moist to stay healthy. This requires enough tears to be produced and the ability to blink to spread the tears across the eyeball like windscreen wipers. The facial nerve tells the eyes to blink and close. It is also responsible for tear production (via the lacrimal gland). People with facial palsy can experience issues with dry, irritable eyes if the affected eye no longer blinks or closes properly and / or insufficient tears are made. Sometimes both eyes are affected. Weakness of the muscle that closes the eye can also lead to the lower eyelid drooping, making it harder to keep tears or eye drops on the eyeball and harder for the eyelids to meet.Title - Hand Exercises With Putty
Description - Hand Exercises With PuttyTitle - Laser Resurfacing
Description - Advice for patients following laser resurfacing: A cleansing regimeTitle - Managing Facial Muscle Weakness After a Parotidectomy
Description - The parotid gland is a large salivary gland located under the skin in front of your ear. It produces saliva and empties into your mouth especially when you are eating. The facial nerve runs through the parotid gland. A parotidectomy is an operation that removes part, or all, of the gland. The nerves supplying the skin of your ear are cut and so it is normal to have varying amounts of numbness to the ear that could be permanent.Title - MOHS Surgery
Description - Patient Specific Advice Following MOHS SurgeryTitle - Transition to Adult Service on Ward 3A
Description - Information for Young People and their carers.
Page last updated on 11th May 2021
