[The choice of surgical tactics in the treatment of extensive scalp wounds in children].

For evaluation of the viability of the skin flaps in treatment of the scalped wounds in 40 children, the oxygen tension, initial and after the 2-minute oxygen load, and as well the rate of oxygen consumption by the tissue of an autotransplant after its saturation under the conditions of hyperbaric oxygenation were defined. These indices permit to predict the survival of the skin flaps.