On May 24, Thong Nhat General Hospital in Dong Nai continued to provide emergency care for a rare case of a patient suffering from septic shock due to a foreign object being an animal piercing the rectum.
At 11:58 am on May 23, patient V.V.L. (male, 41 years old, residing in Phuoc Tan ward, Dong Nai city) was admitted to the hospital in a state of severe abdominal pain, shock, and infection due to acute peritonitis.
Immediately upon receiving, the team of the Emergency Department, Anesthesia and Resuscitation Department and the team of surgeons of the General Surgery Department of Thong Nhat General Hospital in Dong Nai quickly consulted, assessed the emergency abdominal condition and immediately transferred the patient to the operating room.
The surgery was performed urgently, detecting and removing a foreign object that was an eel (more than 50 cm long) located entirely in the peritoneum. After that, the team proceeded to sew back the rectal perforation caused by the eel, wash the abdominal cavity many times, insert drainage tubes...
According to assessments, this is an extremely rare and complex surgical emergency case. The mobile biological foreign object, a large eel, penetrated the rectum, causing severe peritonitis.
The surgery was successful, resolving the mechanical cause, but the patient is still in critical condition, on a ventilator and undergoing blood filtration intervention at the Intensive Care Unit.
