Hospital 12 de Octubre hosted the II Jornada of nurses in Oral and maxillofacial surgery.

highlighted the role of nurse in surgical postoperative.

Madrid, February 2012.- team nursing of surgery Maxilofacial of the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre of Madrid plant has dealt with the performance of these professionals in the postoperative period of Treacher Collins syndrome, as well as tonsillitis fissures in children and treating logoterápico after maxillofacial surgery in adultsduring the day II of Oral and maxillofacial surgery nurses held successfully in this health centre.

Maxillofacial surgery on October 12 offers one of the best portfolios of service in the country, with outpatient surgery under local anesthesia, major outpatient surgery and surgery increased with income, allowing to cover three major pathologies of this specialty: Oncology, trauma, and infectious.

Currently, maxillofacial surgery has evolved considerably, especially in the case of cancer patients, as it is them not only removed the tumor, but also undergoing a complex Michrosurgical of the defect reconstruction withdrawing the neoplastic mass. This type of patients needed care nurses specialized in the donor both own the intervention zone, since it will need special cures for keeping the wound clean.

Hospital 12 de Octubre is reference centre in surgery child CMF for the treatment of congenital craniofacial malformations – syndrome Treacher Collins and microsomía hemifacial, among others. In this sense, the day has become clear what should be the care and management of children operated by nursing in a plant of hospitalization, and later by her parents at home. It has also stressed the importance of the use of absorbable materials in placing reconstructive plates, as the skull of the child tends to grow during their first years of life.