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Mother swings a hammock carelessly, a southern newborn baby is crushed by a sewing machine

According to the information page of the City Children’s Hospital (HCMC) on the evening of June 7, the hospital successfully performed emergency surgery for a 40-day-old pediatric patient suffering from a daily-life accident.

The family member shared with the doctor that, after the patient’s mother put the hammock on the sewing machine and let the child lie down, the machine suddenly fell and pressed on the child’s hand. Immediately after that, the patient was taken to the provincial hospital for emergency treatment, and then transferred to the City Children’s Hospital.

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The doctors said that the baby’s hand is now able to move on its own and can reach over the head, but still needs treatment and continuous physical therapy to restore function. Photo: City Children’s Hospital.

The doctors said that at the time of admission, the child’s arm was purple, at risk of amputation. The child was immediately taken to the operating room for emergency revascularization.

Share with newspaper Health of life, BSCKI. Nguyen Cat Phuong Vu, Department of Intensive Care, said: “Because the wound was too complicated, easy to clot, causing embolism, so the baby had to have 2 re-opening surgery. The wound was too tight to compress the cavity, so he had to continue dissecting the forearm. . Using anticoagulants, the wound bleeds profusely and requires continuous blood transfusion.”

After nearly a month of treatment, using thigh skin graft to arm skin flap and with multi-specialty cooperation (such as Orthopedic Surgery, Vascular, Anesthesiology, Surgical Resuscitation…), so far, the patient has been temporarily new. good in terms of resuscitation. The baby has now been transferred to the Department of General Surgery for monitoring and further treatment. Although the arm is temporarily preserved, the child needs ongoing physical therapy to avoid the risk of stiffness.

Doctors recommend, there have been many accidents when children use hammocks, parents need to be more careful in this. Technically, the accident caused by lying in a hammock is often a dangerous accident, the baby can have traumatic brain injury, skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, broken ribs, spine, facial bones… because The younger a child’s bones are, the weaker they are.

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