Dr. Nicole Kopari on Burn Surgery in the “Swamp” and Her Preferred Blade Techniques

Deep Cuts: A Series on Excision

In this episode, Dr. Roselle Crombie, general and burn surgeon from CT Burn Center, Yale New Haven Health System, speaks with Dr. Nicole Kopari, the Pediatric Burn Medical Director at Children's Hospital New Orleans, on why she became a burn surgeon, her preferred blade techniques, and how operating in the “Swamp” has its own challenges.
The opinions expressed, and techniques described, herein are general in nature and based on the clinical experience of the presenting physician. Physicians should use their own professional judgment and consider patient-specific factors in treating their own patients.
Drs. Crombie and Kopari are paid consultants of Integra LifeSciences, but they have not been compensated for their participation on this podcast.

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