On the evening of September 24, Binh Duong General Hospital said that it had initially successfully treated a pregnant woman whose hand was severed in a work accident.
The case of a work accident at the factory was Ms. L.N.P (20 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City).
According to Binh Duong General Hospital, while working at the factory, Ms. P had a work accident that caused the third of her forearm to be crushed and her hand to be completely severed. After receiving first aid at a medical facility, the patient was urgently transferred to Binh Duong General Hospital.
Upon admission, the doctors noted that the patient was not in a state of shock, consciousness, and was pregnant with twins at the 23rd week. Immediately, the medical team at the hospital held an emergency interdisciplinary consultation to comprehensively assess and propose the most optimal intervention plan.
The top goal is to ensure absolute safety for pregnant women and their two fetuses. The young girl's wish was to be able to keep her hand so that she could directly take care of her two children with her own hands in the future.
In response to that wish, the doctors decided to preserve the severed hand by temporarily grafting it to the calf, connecting the cosmetic vessel, and covering the head near the forehead with a random patch of skin in the abdomen. Thereby, maintaining blood circulation and keeping the tissue structure intact while waiting for the hand to reattach at the more appropriate time.
The surgery lasted 3 consecutive hours, during the entire surgery - the doctors performed a vascular connection to temporarily graft the hand to the leg, while closely monitoring the fetal condition. Initial results are very positive, the mother's condition is stable, but the fetus is developing normally and the hand is being preserved and is progressing well.
Binh Duong General Hospital said that it is expected that when the pregnancy is over 32 weeks old, the patient will consider performing hand surgery.
