Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A micro-surgery was performed to save the hand of a sixteen-year-old boy at Hamidia Hospital. In yet another case, a critical surgery was conducted on the leg of a youth who was injured in a road accident in Sehore.
In the plastic surgery department, the 16-year-old boy’s cut vein and its branch were connected to a main vein through microsurgery. Not only was the bleeding stopped, but blood circulation in the hand was also restored.
The patient was kept under ICU post-op care for three days. After seven days, his left hand showed improvement, as he was able to move it and feel sensations again.
In the second case, involving a child from Sehore, doctors removed a piece of skin, flesh and vein from the child’s left thigh and connected it to the blood vein of the right leg using microsurgery.
The child was a victim of a road accident in which his leg bone was fractured and crushed. Due to infection in the bone, doctors had initially advised amputation. However, the team of plastic surgeons saved the leg using VAC (Vacuum-Assisted Closure) therapy followed by microvascular surgery.
Dr. Anand Gautam from the micro-surgery department told Free Press, “In this type of crush injury of leg, after VAC therapy and debridement, microsurgery is the only option to save the leg. The hand of the patient has started working. Microvascular surgery operations are very complex and long, so the team of anaesthesiologists plays an important role in it.”
Kudos to docs
16-year-old’s hand saved by reconnecting severed veins
Child’s crushed leg salvaged from amputation
VAC therapy used before complex microsurgery
ICU care and team effort crucial to success
