Reattaching severed hand to work accident patient

SGGPO 09/19/2023 14:29

Ho Chi Minh City Orthopedic Trauma Hospital said that it had just performed microsurgery to reattach the hand of patient LGT (22 years old) who had a serious work accident, causing the bone to be crushed and the right wrist to be severed.

Doctor examining patient after microsurgery to reattach severed hand

Previously, while working late at night, Mr. T. unfortunately had his right wrist severed by a stamping machine. He was given first aid on the spot by his colleagues and taken to the Ho Chi Minh City Orthopedic and Trauma Hospital with his severed hand.

When receiving the patient for emergency treatment, the doctors realized that this was a very serious traumatic accident. The on-duty team divided into groups to simultaneously perform the following steps: emergency resuscitation for the patient's blood loss, perform tests for emergency surgery, and bring the severed hand straight into the operating room to cut, clean, and mark the neurovascular structures before the patient was taken to the operating room.

Because the patient was completely severed, the wound was bruised, the severed part was crushed at the lower end of the radius, the blood vessels, nerves and tendons were crushed by the machine, so the surgical team proceeded to shorten the ulna to create a relatively stable wrist, then prioritized microsurgical grafting of arteries and veins to save the hand.

The hand is now stable and the patient's mental state has improved. It is expected that the patient will undergo further surgeries to reconstruct, microsurgically connect the nerve, and connect the flexor and extensor tendons.

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/noi-ban-tay-dut-lia-cho-benh-nhan-bi-tai-nan-lao-dong-post706202.html