J&K: Army doctors save 61-year-old woman critically injured in bear attack

Udhampur: Army doctors at Command Hospital have saved a 61-year-old woman with severe injuries on her neck and abdomen following an attack by a wild bear. The doctors performed a timely surgery to repair her wind pipe and blood vessels of the neck.

"A 61 years old female resident of Pancheri village was brought barely breathing to emergency of Command Hospital after sustaining severe injuries to her neck and abdomen following attack by a wild bear on December 16," an officer said She was immediately attended by trauma surgeons, who found out that she has got life threatening injuries to her wind pipe and large blood vessels of her neck.

Also Read: President Droupadi Murmu undergoes Cataract Surgery at Army Hospital

"Although it is very challenging to secure airway in such injury, the anesthesiologist expertly placed endotracheal tube across injured wind pipe, thereafter she was wheeled in to operation theatre immediately for life saving surgery", he said.

In the operation theatre, the surgical team battled the odds to repair her severely injured wind pipe.

The ENT team too performed protective tracheostomy for better healing of repaired wind pipe, the officer said, adding that the surgical team also attended the remaining large injuries over the abdomen.

After the procedure, she was shifted to ICU and was monitored for any complications.

"She is recovering from near to death experience and presently in more stable clinical condition," the officer said. 

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in the first such report inside a NICU in India, Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Bangalore successfully carried out an emergency ECMO in a very small low birth-weight neonate (1.7 Kg) who suffered from a life-endangering condition of pulmonary hypertension and haemorrhage which lead to multi-organ dysfunction and cardiorespiratory failure. The newborn girl initially presented with breathing problems (rapid and shallow breathing) along with which her heart was beating fast (over 100/min). Her skin also turned pale or bluish due to decreased oxygen in the body. She was referred from a local hospital on day 6 of birth as she was unresponsive to conventional ventilation and medical therapy.

Also Read:Delhi: Army Hospital gets 'Early Intervention Centre-Prayas'