On June 6, Dr. CKII Chung Tan Dinh - Director of Soc Trang Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital - said that the unit had just received and successfully operated on a 2-year-old boy who had a perforated intestine due to swallowing the right fish bone while eating.
The patient, N.H.Q (2 years old), residing in Long Phu district (Soc Trang province), was taken to the hospital by his family in a state of crying, pain all over the abdomen, fever and vomiting.
Examination results, ultrasound and tests showed that the baby had signs of excess intestinal inflammation accompanied by thick surrounding fat, increased white blood cells. Doctors determined that this was a dangerous case and required emergency surgery.
During the surgery, the crew recorded the abdominal cavity of the child containing many pus and fake fluid, concentrated in the right and lowered pelvis. Appendicitis, pus. In particular, an object of about 4 cm suspected that the fishbone was discovered in the cecum, about 2 cm from the base of the ileum. The object has pierced the intestinal wall, causing localized peritonitis.
Doctors cut the appendix, remove the object from the cecum and place the Douglas drainage and lead the cecum. After surgery, pediatric patients were actively treated at the Department of Pediatrics. At present, my health has been stable, dry incision, and drainage pipes have been withdrawn.
