On the afternoon of June 2, Ho Chi Minh City's Xuyen A General Hospital said that it had just had an emergency surgery to save a male ironworker whose flying metal shards pierced his lungs while working.
Previously, while cutting aluminum and iron, this worker suddenly fell to the floor. The company checked the camera and found no external force.
The wound of the flying metal pierced the victim's lung
The victim was taken to the emergency room in a state of rapid shallow breathing, calling to ask and answering questions but slowly, sometimes in a daze, there was a very small wound on the chest, no hematoma, very painful; No signs of focal neurological paralysis, weakness.
Through examination, the doctors discovered that there was a metal foreign body 4 x 0.35 cm located at the base of the left upper lobe of the left lung, next to the bronchus of the tongue lobe, contusion of the left lung, mainly the upper lobe, hemothorax.
The patient coughed up blood profusely after being diagnosed with a foreign body in the lung, blood pressure began to drop.
Foreign object removed
Immediately, the patient underwent emergency surgery to remove the foreign body, solve the injury, stop the bleeding, save the patient in a state of "thousands of pounds hanging hair". Due to high-speed flying foreign bodies, bronchial branches and pulmonary arteries are severed. Pulmonary contusion of the entire upper lobe should remove the damaged lung in the upper lobe.
After surgery, the patient's health was stable and awake. The patient said that he was operating an iron and aluminum cutting machine at a company specializing in the production of pots and pans, when suddenly the shrapnel flew out at extremely high speed and pinned him at an unknown time.
