Replanted in 6 hours

Falling glass pane cuts off a young man's finger in Abu Dhabi

Orthopedic fixation was performed using a single wire to repair the fracture and tendons and then repair the arteries and veins.

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A medical team at Burjeel Medical City in Abu Dhabi succeeded in performing a successful microscopic surgery that took more than six hours to re-implant a finger of a thirty-year-old man who suffered a severe injury as a result of a window glass falling on his hand, which led to a complete cut in the finger (the index finger), and other injuries. Deep with the rest of the left hand fingers and nails.

As soon as the patient was received in the emergency department, the medical team performed an autopsy of the severed finger under a surgical microscope to check the condition of the joints, veins, arteries and nerves that had been affected by a fine cut, after which a bone fixation was performed using a single wire to repair the fracture and tendons, then the arteries and veins were repaired and the severed finger surgically re-implanted Under the microscope, and after checking the conduction of blood vessels and the return of blood flow to the finger, the skin was sutured and the pieces closed, and the rest of the injuries to the other three fingers were dealt with, as the surgery took six hours continuously.

The patient said: “As soon as the glass plate fell on my hand, I felt unbearable pain. medical.”

For his part, the city’s plastic surgery specialist, Dr. Leon Alexander, said: “In hand injuries ranging from superficial lacerations to complete amputations in the emergency department, the injured usually require specialized treatment by a hand surgeon who performs reconstructive surgery and microsurgery, and in this patient’s case he needed a Finger re-implant surgery which is a complex surgery that is performed only by a few selected hand surgeons in the country with experience in microsurgery, the patient was also lucky and the medical team was able to reconnect his finger, because the time of ischemia (low blood and oxygen supply) It was less, and the amputated finger was not badly damaged and was well preserved, and in these cases, preserving the amputated part is the most important step to start urgent treatment.”

He pointed out that the re-implanted part of the body does not restore its function by 100%, but medically, the recovery of 60% to 80% of use is an excellent result, although most cases that succeed in re-implantation restore only approximately 50% of the total movement or function .

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