Docs amputate driver’s right leg

Doctors at Care Hospital, Nampally, amputated the right leg of locomotive pilot L. Chandrashekar as vascular damage to the limb was high. The medicos hope this would help save the life of the train driver. Doctors also performed surgeries on other patients who were injured in the recent MMTS-Hundry Intercity accident at Kachiguda.

Hospital’s chief operating officer Satyam Dheeraj said Chandrasekhar remains admitted in the medical intensive care unit with fractured ribs, haemorrhagic shock with acute tubular necrosis, and severe rhabdomyolysis (crush injuries leading to muscle death and release of substances into blood stream causing kidney damage).

The crush injuries to lower limbs severely compressed the arteries. On suggestions by a team of vascular surgeons and consent of family members, the train driver’s right leg was amputated above the knee.

The Care Hospital representative said Chandrasekhar continues to be critically ill and is on mechanical ventilator support and continuous renal replacement therapy with inotropic support and medications to maintain haemodynamics. He has also developed disseminated intravascular coagulation and as a result received multiple transfusions of blood and blood products during the last 24 hours.

One of the injured P. Balaeshwaramma with a fractured left ankle will go for surgery on Friday. She had been under observation as she has a past history of diabetes. Likewise, Saajid Abdur Rasheed Shaik, who suffered maxilla facial injuries, too will be operated on Friday by a maxillofacial surgeon.

■ THE CRUSH injuries to lower limbs severely compressed the arteries. On suggestions by a team of vascular surgeons and consent of family members, the train driver’s right leg was amputated above the knee.