While transporting construction materials at the construction site, the worker’s sleeve was caught in a pulley, causing his left arm to be severed.
The victim, in Co Do district, was given first aid by colleagues, iced the severed arm, and taken to Can Tho City General Hospital in a state of traumatic shock, blood loss, unmeasured pulse and blood pressure, and lethargy. dream of slow contact. The arm was cut near the armpit, the wound exposed bone, skin peeled off revealing the Delta muscle, biceps and triceps.
The team includes doctors in Emergency Resuscitation, Trauma – Burns Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Surgery – Anesthesia and Resuscitation to coordinate emergency care, hemostasis, fluid and blood transfusion to treat the patient’s shock. Then the arm was surgically reattached.
Doctors from the Department of Trauma and Burn Surgery fixed the left arm bone together with a frame, while doctors from the Department of Thoracic Surgery removed both ends of the arm, revascularized the severed limb and connected the arteries and veins to the same cord. nerves with each other. The surgery took place in 6 hours, the patient’s blood vessels circulated well.
To date, 5 days after surgery, the patient’s incision is healing, his hand is alive and well and is recovering.
Doctors say that successful limb transplant surgery depends on many factors: The limb is severed due to a sharp cut or contusion of neurovascular muscle tissue; the scene of severed limbs; Preserve clean limbs at an ideal temperature of 5-10 degrees Celsius. The patient is transferred to the hospital and the limb is reattached within 6 hours of the “golden time” from the moment it is severed; Highly specialized surgical team.