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Justin Gillenwater, MD, MS<\/a>, was walking in a park in Santa Monica with his wife and baby on Saturday, May 16, when one of his surgical residents who lives in Los Angeles\u2019 Little Tokyo neighborhood started texting him photos: A building had caught fire<\/a>, and the stored butane oil inside had exploded. Firefighters who were in the building essentially had to walk through a ball of fire to get out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew there would be mass casualties. I had to get in as quickly as possible.\u201d Gillenwater, the medical director for the Southern California Regional Burn Center at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, raced across town. Eleven firefighters were raced to the Burn Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been at the Burn Center since 2015,\u201d said Gillenwater \u201cWe train and plan for disasters as part of our advanced burn life support, but I hadn\u2019t seen anything like this before. A few of our nurses have been in the Burn Center for 30 years, and\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0hadn\u2019t seen anything like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the Burn Center is a part of LAC+USC\u2019s Level 1 Trauma Center. \u201cWe\u2019re the only Level-1 Trauma Center in the county that also has a burn unit,\u201d Gillenwater explained. That was crucial, because the firefighters had access to the Emergency Department\u2019s abilities to stabilize, triage and treat such a large number of people at the same time.<\/p>\n

By the time Gillenwater arrived, the firefighters had their gear removed and were stabilized. Gillenwater met Alex Lacy, MD, the Burn Unit\u2019s dedicated surgical fellow, plastic surgery chief resident Soleil Niknam-Bienia, MD, and in-house resident Casey Krebs, MD. They and the Emergency Room physicians gave him updates on all the patients. The firefighters had a range of injuries, ranging from first- to third-degree burns, and had been triaged according to the severity of their injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would not have been possible with our Emergency Department,\u201d said Gillenwater. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason it\u2019s one of the best-regarded programs in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillenwater worked with his colleagues to check the firefighters for hot gas and smoke inhalation injuries. Inhaling smoke, heated gases and particles from a fire can damage the lungs and throat and constrict breathing. A few of the firefighters were intubated and temporarily put on ventilators to make sure they could get enough oxygen into their systems.<\/p>\n

Once all the firefighters had been extubated, it was time to treat their burn injuries.<\/p>\n

Gillenwater first tended to a firefighter who had very deep burns and needed an escharotomy, a surgical removal of burned tissue in order to restore blood flow. \u201cWith a third-degree burn, the tissue becomes stiff and inflexible,\u201d explained Gillenwater. \u201cIf there\u2019s swelling, it can cut off the blood flow to healthy tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillenwater made careful evaluations for each patient. Though he is board-certified in both plastic surgery and critical care surgery, in many cases he says his most important decision is when not to perform a surgical procedure.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurgery causes scarring, and every scar has a consequence,\u201d he explained. \u201cI try to think about every patient\u2019s mobility, comfort and even their appearance for 10, 20, or 30 years down the road. My philosophy is not to operate on wounds that will heal on their own with minimal scarring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haig Yenikomshian, MD, chief of the Plastic Surgery Program at LAC+USC and one of the attending surgeons at the burn unit, pointed out that this is a unique advantage of the Southern California Regional Burn Center. \u201cWe\u2019re the only burn unit in the country that is 100% run by a plastic surgery program. All of our attending surgeons \u2014 Dr. Gillenwater and I and Dr. Warren Garner \u2014 are dual-certified in plastic surgery and critical care surgery, and that\u2019s crucial. When we treat acute burns, we think years or decades in advance. We want to make sure our patients can return to their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

This long-term approach to care is exactly why Gillenwater chose to specialize in burn injuries and scarring. \u201cI like the fact that I\u2019m building a relationship with my patients. I get to take care of somebody from day one after a devastating event, through the healing process, and then I take care of their scars down the road. It\u2019s rewarding to see patients come back from a trauma and get back to their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillenwater also likes the Burn Center\u2019s team-based approach. Doctors, nurses, therapists, nutritionists, social workers, psychologists and pharmacists all work together to make sure that everyone gets the best possible care. \u201cWe talk about every patient as a group, and everyone has a voice in that patient\u2019s care,\u201d he said. \u201cIf any piece of that was missing, we wouldn\u2019t have the good outcomes that we do. We use a team approach for every patient, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillenwater also made sure to point out that in addition to the incredible work from Emergency Department personnel, LAC+USC\u2019s team was immediate and generous with resources. \u201cI got a text from every hospital administrator that night saying, \u2018What do you need and how can I help?\u2019 The Chief of Surgery, the CMO, the CEO \u2014 everyone was on board immediately. That is collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most important thing is that every single firefighter injured in the blaze will survive. \u201cThat\u2019s a testament to their gear and to the collaboration of everyone on the many teams who rushed in to help,\u201d said Gillenwater. \u201cEveryone pitched in, any way they knew how.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 by Lex Davis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-recent"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTeamwork treats injured firefighters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teamwork treats injured firefighters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KECKschoolUSC\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-22T17:21:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-26T16:31:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/11\/Gillenwater.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1271\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Keck School Media Relations\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@KeckSchool_USC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@KeckSchool_USC\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Keck School Media Relations\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d73b4e3cd2ac264049e281da8db4b1d6\"},\"headline\":\"Teamwork treats injured firefighters\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-22T17:21:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-26T16:31:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/68\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/Gillenwater.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Recent\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Press Release\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/\",\"name\":\"Teamwork treats injured firefighters\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/68\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/Gillenwater.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-22T17:21:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-26T16:31:16+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/teamwork-treats-injured-firefighters\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/68\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/Gillenwater.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/keck.usc.edu\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/68\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/Gillenwater.png\",\"width\":1271,\"height\":850,\"caption\":\"May 16. 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