Successfully resuscitated a 12-year-old patient with a bullet in the head

Central Highlands General Hospital:

16:56, 11/14/2023

On the afternoon of November 14, Dr. Huynh Nhu Dong, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery - Tay Nguyen General Hospital, said that the hospital had just performed emergency surgery on a 12-year-old patient who had been shot in the head.

According to Dr. Dong, at around 6:00 p.m. on November 13, the hospital admitted patient Đ. G. B (born in 2011, residing in Ea Kar town, Ea Kar district) with a traumatic brain injury caused by a firearm, bilateral temporal skull fractures, bilateral subdural hematomas, brain contusions, and cerebral hemorrhage. The patient's family said the child was shot in the head by a homemade gun.

Child B is being treated at the Central Highlands General Hospital.

Doctors at the Central Highlands General Hospital are treating patient B.

Faced with the patient's critical condition, the hospital's doctors and nurses performed emergency surgery. The surgery lasted more than 3 hours, and the doctors and nurses removed a 4 x 4 mm metal bullet. "After the surgery, the patient is now out of danger, conscious, able to feel pain, and is being closely monitored. The patient's health is expected to recover well, and he is being given high doses of antibiotics to recover quickly. This wound may leave sequelae," said Dr. Dong.

Talking to reporters, B's parents said that on the afternoon of November 13, while she was at work, she received a phone call from a relative informing her that her son had been shot, so she rushed home and took her son to the emergency room. It turned out that when her son came home from school, he went to his friend's house in the same town to play. That's where the heartbreaking incident happened. The family is taking their son to the emergency room so they don't know the exact cause of the incident.

It is known that the Central Highlands General Hospital is keeping the bullet in the Anesthesia and Resuscitation Department to serve the investigation of the authorities.

Le Thanh

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