The doctors of Kailash hospital here have claimed to perform an advanced micro vascular surgery on crushed forearm of a man and saved it from amputation.
The victim Pankaj, a resident of Sekhpura village of Saharanpur was admitted on the hospital on May 16 with badly crushed forearm.
His arm got entangled in the thrasher machines and it twisted crushed and mangled his forearm.
The Director of the hospital Pawan Sharma said that the relatives of Pankaj took him to a local hospital in Saharanpur where doctors advised him that only mirco-vascular surgery can salvage his hand and advised them to take the patient to either Chandigarh or Delhi.
Since time was crucial the attendants took Pankaj to Kailash hospital, Dehradun.
The Senior Plastic and micro vascular surgeon of the hospital Dr Harish Ghildiyal said that Pankaj was brought just in time an immediate surgery extending to five hours in which fixation of fractured bones and micro vascular repair of damaged blood vessels with help of microscopes was done.
The surgery was successful and his limb was saved from amputation, he said. Dr Ghildiyal further informed that in order to cover the exposed bones another surgery was performed on May 20 in which skin and muscles of his back were removed and the injured portion was repaired.
Two more surgeries were performed on the patient in which the skin was grafted on the injured portion, he said.
The multiple reconstructive surgeries proved successful and the patient is now fast recovering. Incidentally Pankaj was also present on the occasion to narrate the events.
The team which treated Pankaj also included Senior orthopaedic surgeon Dr Vineet Tyagi, chief intensivist, Dr Sanjeev Nivargi and others.