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Title - Mangalore: Bypass Surgery to Amputated Limb Saves Life Yet AgainPosted by : railenquiry on Jul 29, 2012 - 09:02:03 AM |
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Recently, a remarkable plastic surgery was performed at Yenepoya Specialty Hospital for a victim of a railway accident, who sustained total amputation of both lower limbs on April 14 at Mangalore Central Railway station.Santhosh and his colleague were on duty as employees of Railway Mail Service (RMS), when they both came under the wheels of the Parasuram express on platform 1 at about 3.45 am that day. His colleague was not as lucky; he expired before he could be taken to nearby Wenlock Hospital. However, Santhosh, who was in severe shock due to severe blood loss, was rushed to Yenepoya Specialty hospital for emergency treatment. Once his condition improved with emergency care, he underwent a successful 8 hour surgery to reattach the lifeless left foot involving orthopaedic surgeon Dr Deepak Rai, plastic surgeon Dr Satish Bhat and anaesthetist Dr Salman. The right foot was severely crushed and amputation surgery had to be done for the limb.Though the initial surgery was successful, after about two weeks deep infection caused the blood vessel maintaining life to the foot to burst. This needed another supra major microsurgery procedure, wherein the Dr Satish Bhat did a vascular bypass surgery by the technique of microsurgery involving transplant of skin and flesh to control the infection. A final orthopaedic surgery was done by Dr Deepak Rai in view of the bone infection before his discharge. Such extraordinary efforts were needed to ensure the only remaining leg survived completely. |