Successfully connected a severed finger to a 17-year-old patient suffering from a work accident
On April 19, news from Thong Nhat General Hospital (Dong Nai) said that doctors at this hospital had just successfully performed surgery to connect a severed thumb for a 17-year-old male patient who had an accident. labor.
Doctors said that this male patient was brought to the hospital by family members with a severed finger and bleeding profusely. Immediately after receiving, the patient’s condition was quite severe, but fortunately, the severed finger was given proper first aid, the severed finger was well preserved, the doctors assigned a finger joint for the patient. .
The team quickly applied microsurgery to connect blood vessels and nerves with micro-threads, the result was successfully connected the patient’s thumb.
Doctor Nguyen Quoc Lu, Deputy Head of the Department of Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma and Burns at Thong Nhat General Hospital, who directly performed the surgery, said that microvascular surgery is a difficult technique to perform, requiring doctors to perform the surgery. The doctor must be highly qualified and experienced. However, in this case, the doctors tried their best to support the patient.
Dr. Lu recommends that people, if unfortunately have a labor accident, amputate a limb, need to give first aid properly and go to the right medical facility with a specialist as soon as possible to have the opportunity to save the limb.
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