AIIMS docs save man in critical state
The doctors at Jai Prakash Narayan Trauma Centre, AIIMS, conducted a rare surgery on a 30-year-old man from Mathura who had a rod pierced from the space between eye and nose through spinal cord.
Bhuwaneshwar, 30, a clerk in RTO, Mathura, was going home from office at 9 pm, when someone hit him from behind and he fell on a railway line where iron rods were lying. One of the rods pierced his face between eyes and nose. First he was taken to Mathura hospital, then to Agra hospital but the doctors expressed their incompetence to operate in such a complicated case. He was brought to AIIMS Trauma Centre at 6.30 pm on September 10.
“The operation was rare as it was done through mouth. The bones adjacent to the rods were cut, the area encircling the rod was loosened and then the rod was taken out,” medical superintendent, Prof. M.C. Misra said.
“We did the initial scans to know the gravity and the area of the injury. He was taken to the operation theatre at 9 pm and the surgery went on for eleven hours. A team of 15 doctors and a dozen paramedics were on their toes,” he added.
The patient, now able to talk slowly, is still recovering in ICU. He will be sent home after one week.
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