Bengaluru: In an emergency surgery, a wrist-level hand re-implantation surgery was accomplished by the doctors at the Kanva Sri Sai Hospital, a unit of Raghavendra Rural Health Care Foundation on June 1 enabling 90 per cent mobility of hand.
On 1st June 2021 at about 7.30 pm a 25-year old factory worker’s left -hand which was entangled in a machine was severed from the body at wrist-level. The worker was referred to the emergency department of Kanva Sri Sai Hospital, after he was rejected by several hospitals which suggested amputation.
At around 9.30, the doctors at the Kanva Sri Sai Hospital took the challenge and planned an emergency surgery for the reconstruction of the left hand. Dr Prashanth Kesari, Dr Pradeep Kumar N, Dr Sameer Kumar, Dr Jayaraj and team conducted a very complicated Microvascular Surgery – Wrist-level Hand Re-implantation.
The procedure took for about six hours. The team of doctors was all set for any kind of complications during the surgery and post-surgery complications like severe blood loss. The success rate in such cases will be only around 50 to 60% but with the timely response and with the support of the whole team the surgery was successfully done at an affordable cost Said Dr. Prashanth Kesari and Dr Pradeep Kumar N.
Hospital Managing Director Dr Pradeep S J, who spoke on World Plastic Surgery Day, said that it was a very complicated and difficult surgery which and the successful re-implantation is a credit to the team of doctors at the hospital.
Kanva Sri Sai Hospital, managed by Raghavendra Rural Health Care Foundation located in #227, Rajivgandhi Nagar, Nandini Layout in Bangalore.