Among the total number of wounded who entered the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Western Region from February to September 2022, combat injury to the limbs was in 63.3%. Bullet wounds caused combat injury to the limbs in 10.4%, shrapnel and mine-explosive – in 68.1%, explosive injury – in 21.5%. At the second role of medical care, emergency surgical interventions were performed on the wounded, immobilization of bone fractures with an external fixation and anti-shock therapy. At the third and fourth roles – the treatment of the wounded consisted in the use of a multidisciplinary approach with the involvement of doctors of various specialties, first of all, general surgeons, traumatologists, vascular, plastic surgeons and anesthesiologists. The most frequent surgical intervention was repeatened and secondary debridment of gunshot wounds, which was required by 93% of the wounded. The main pathogens that vegetated in wounds were Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter aerogenes, Proteus vulgaris, Enterococcus faecalis with high levels of microbial contamination – 104-108/g in tissues., Various types of plastics were used to close soft tissue defects, according to the rule of the reconstruction ladder. After healing a soft tissue wound to determine the timing of replacing the method of fixing fractures with internal osteosynthesis, were analyzed clinical and laboratory parameters and assessed the risks of complications. The main causes of amputations of the limbs were common defects in soft tissue and bones, which were not subject to reconstruction with no prognosis for bone fusion and progression of the infectious-necrotic process.
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