Patient suffered multiple injuries and blindness due to phone exploding while using and charging the battery

Informing the press, Master, Doctor Nguyen Trong Tai, Department of Bone Examination and Outpatient Treatment, Viet Duc Friendship Hospital said that this unit has just received a case of dangerous multiple injuries due to a phone exploding while charging.

Specifically, at 2:30 a.m. on August 6, Viet Duc Friendship Hospital received patient TTC (37 years old, Bac Giang ) admitted to the hospital in a state of multiple trauma, facial deformity, ruptured right eyeball, wound across the trachea due to a piece of plastic deeply embedded; many wounds on the chest, abdomen, and both thighs; amputation and crushing of all 2-5 fingers of the right hand.

The patient’s husband said the accident happened when his wife was at her grandmother’s house, alone in the room. When the phone ran out of battery, the patient plugged it in and used it while charging. The phone’s type and origin were also unknown.

According to the patient's husband, when he heard that his wife had an accident, he rushed to the hospital to see her and was stunned and surprised by the severe injuries on her body. After first aid, the local hospital transferred the patient to Viet Duc Hospital.

At Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, the patient was promptly operated on by doctors, combining multiple specialties and consulting to provide treatment direction for the patient. The patient had his tracheal wound sutured, his maxillofacial soft tissue wound sutured; trauma doctors removed foreign objects, cleaned the wound; gastroenterologists performed an abdominal endoscopy to detect any deep injuries inside the abdominal organs, if any.

At the same time, invite doctors from the Central Eye Hospital to perform surgery on the patient, remove the ruptured right eyeball; Coordinate with the microsurgery and orthopedic trauma specialists to reconstruct the stump of the right hand due to complete crushing.

Currently, after surgery, the patient's condition is relatively stable and he is receiving post-operative care at the Department of General Trauma Surgery. However, the patient's limb function is limited, and his right hand is almost unable to work.

From the experience of emergency work in recent times, Dr. Tai warned people to be careful when using their phones, not to use them while charging to avoid unfortunate accidents that affect their health and lives.

It is known that in the past two years, Viet Duc Friendship Hospital has received 4-5 cases of phones exploding while charging, however this is the most serious case, most of the previous cases had soft tissue injuries, with a few fingers crushed./.

Source: https://dangcongsan.vn/y-te/benh-nhan-bi-da-chan-thuong-mu-mat-vi-dien-thoai-phat-no-do-vua-dung-vua-sac-pin-643880.html