A team of doctors led by Dr Anurag Chitranshi from Prime Hospitals performed a highly complex surgery to re-implant an amputated arm of a 12 year old girl in Hyderabad.
The doctors from Prime hospitals acted in the right time and conducted a successful surgery to re-implant an amputated arm for the first time in Andhra Pradesh. Usually in many such cases, the other half of the amputated part of the limb becomes non-functional and useless unless an immediate medical care is given.
After eight long hours of the complex surgery the doctors declared the surgery as a rare success and the 12 year old girl is fast recovering as veins and arteries are functioning properly by supplying blood in to the re-implanted arm.
Going in to details, Thanishka was brought to the emergency department at Prime Hospitals in Ameerpet, on December 10, 2013 at around 1:30 pm with accidental entrapment of right arm in an elevator.
Preliminary examination showed her hand to be amputated at a level just above the wrist and she was bleeding from the amputation stump but conscious and co-operative all the while. The amputated arm was brought in a plastic bag put in a thermacol box filled with ice pieces and ice packs, as is desired for a successful re-implantation. The doctors in the emergency department resuscitated, stabilized her and did dressing for the arm. The amputated hand was sent to the operation theatre immediately.
The re-implantation surgery took a marathon of eight hours by a team comprising of plastic surgeon Dr Anurag Chitranshi, orthopaedic surgeon Dr Sathish Reddy and Dr BSV Raju, neurosurgeon & director to operate on her. Initially she was giving general anaesthesia and the arm bone was fixed. Subsequently the veins, arteries, nerves and tendons were repaired and the surgery was completed. The blood circulation was re-established in the cut hand within 6 hours of amputation. She was discharged after a two weeks stay at the hospital with the limb surviving in its entirety.
The expeditious presentation of the patient at the hospital, preservation of the amputated hand in a clean bag, with the bag surrounded by ice cubes, the immediate attention of the team at casualty and expertise of specialist doctors at Prime Hospital in promptly re-implanting and ensuring arterial blood flow, is what helped in salvaging the arm, says Dr Anurag Chitranshi.
source: http://www.pharmabiz.com / PharmaBiz.com / Home> News> Hospitals & Clinics / by PharmaBiz.com Bureau, Hyderabad / Friday – January 31st, 2014