A seventeen-year-old boy who suffered a life-threatening fall, causing a gaping chest wound (15 inches by 6 inches), multiple severe cuts over leg and thigh and hemorrhagic shock was given a new lease of life by a team of doctors. The teenager, who is a resident of Vishwas Park, South West Delhi and hails from Nagaland, sustained these brutal injuries when he fell from the third floor of the building he lived in.
The boy was in a critical condition when he was brought to the hospital’s emergency department in the early morning on August 31. The critical condition of the boy necessitated immediate and full medical intervention, said Dr Aashish Chaudhry, Managing Director of Aakash Healthcare.
“The teen was in a poor medical state with unrecordable low blood pressure owing to extensive blood loss from the chest and thigh wounds,” he said.
His coagulation profile was grossly deranged (Hb 1.9, platelets 45,000), further adding to the complexity of the case, Dr Chaudhry said, sharing the severity of the case.
“Our multidisciplinary team, including Dr Nikhil Yadav, Director & Senior Consultant, Laparoscopic & General Surgery, Dr Amrish Kumar, Senior Consultant, Cardio Thoracic Surgery and Dr Pallav Kumar, Senior Consultant & Head, Neuroanaesthesia & Neurocritical Care, operated for four hours to save the boy,” he said.
A complex surgical procedure was performed that included a thoracotomy with lung laceration repair, pleural cavity lavage, and ICD insertion, and repaired multiple lacerations over the right leg. Following the successful surgery, the patient was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit where his condition continued to stabilise further.
The boy is recuperating well, said Dr Chaudhary, adding that the orphaned young staying with his aunt had the treatment costs covered by crowdfunding with nurses contributing the majority of the costs, resulting in free care for the patient.