UP: Medanta Doctors re-attach severed hand of 21-year-old MBBS student
The right hand of the patient was completely severed from the shoulder and hanging from only one nerve. A nine-hour-long procedure involving multiple surgeries and bone grafting was performed.
Lucknow: Doctors of Medanta Super-speciality Hospital have successfully attached the severed hand of a 21-year-old MBBS student, using a part of chest muscles and bone grafting.
The reconstruction surgery was done 10 days back and the patient's arm has now started moving and has sensation.
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Consultant of Plastic Surgery, Dr Vaibhav Khanna, while briefing about the case, said: "The right hand of the patient, Saurabh, was almost completely severed from the shoulder and hanging from only one nerve. As soon as he was admitted to the hospital, a nine-hour long procedure involving multiple surgeries and bone grafting was performed in which not only the arm but muscles and nerves were also reattached."
"The anaesthesia team reconstructed all the neurovascular structures and soft tissues. At the same time, for vascularisation, a flap of muscle from the chest was transplanted and the muscles of the hand were repaired.
Simultaneously, to fix the broken humerus mid-shaft, the orthopaedic team decided to do internal bone fixation," he explained. After the operation, the patient was shifted to ICU where he was hydrodynamically stabilised and given medication support. The doctor said that Saurabh's hand is recovering well and has become vascularised and stable.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported a similar incident where a new record was marked by Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital by telecasting 300 live successful surgeries in five years. On June 27, the 150th international webcast was watched by 2,167 urologists from 20 different countries. According to Dr Anup Kumar, Head of the Department of Urology, Robotics, and Renal Transplant, the webcast was a new record not only in India but also in the world.
The surgery conducted on 27 June was complex urology cancer and reconstruction surgery done by robotics and 3-D laparoscopy and more than 10,000 urologists from 20 different countries have been watching such surgeries for the last five years.
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