KGMU doctors remove iron rod from 21-year-old youth’s abdomen
LUCKNOW: A team of surgeons at the King George’s Medical University successfully conducted a three-hour long lifesaving surgery on a 21-year-old youth to remove an iron rod that had pierced his body after he fell from the fifth floor of a construction site in Amethi on Thursday. The rod had ruptured the victim’s small and arge intestines, besides causing other severe abdominal injuries.
The team, led by Dr Vinod Jain and Dr Sameer Misra of the general surgery department, operated on Anil Kumar after he was brought to the trauma centre on Thursday night.
A labourer and resident of Jayas, in Amethi, Anil was working at a petroleum plant when he slipped from the fifth floor and fell on a vertically placed iron rod at 3.45 pm on Thursday. “The rod pierced his body causing severe abdominal injury. He was brought here with the iron rod impaled across his abdomen,” said Dr Jain.
The patient was resuscitated
THE ROD HAD RUPTURED THE VICTIM’S SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINES AND CAUSED SEVERE ABDOMINAL INJURIES
and immediately operated in trauma by the doctors’ team. They corrected the ruptured small bowel, ruptured large bowel and other abdominal injuries. It took three hours to operate.
“It was fortunate that the patients was brought to a medical centre like the trauma centre in time, as delay in such cases can be fatal. It was prompt action and timely treatment that saved his life,” said Dr Jain. The patient is recuperating in the ICU and would soon be shifted to the general ward as his health improves.
“In such cases, people should not try to remove the foreign body themselves. Instead, they should take the injured person to a medical centre as soon as possible,” Dr Jain added.