<p>The trauma team at Prime Hospitals here, led by plastic surgeon Dr Anurag Chitranshi and senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon-director Dr Sathish Reddy, recently performed a highly complex surgery to re-implant the right arm of a 12-year-old girl. <br /><br /></p>.<p> The girl, Thanishka, was brought to the emergency department at around 1:30 pm with accidental entrapment of her right arm in an elevator. Preliminary examination showed her hand was cut at a level just above the wrist and she bled from the amputation stump, while remaining conscious and co-operative. <br /><br />The amputated arm was brought in a plastic bag put in a thermacol box filled with ice pieces and ice packs, as is desired for a successful re-implantation. <br /><br />Doctors in the emergency department resuscitated, stabilised her and did dressing for the arm. The amputated hand was sent to the operation theatre immediately.<br /><br />Doctors started surgery on the amputated hand at 2:30 pm. Thanishka was wheeled into the operation theatre by 3:30 pm and the marathon eight-hour surgery began to re-implant the arm. A team comprising of Plastic Surgeon Dr Anurag Chitranshi, Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Sathish Reddy and Dr BSV Raju, Neurosurgeon & Diredctor to operated on her. <br /><br />Initially, she was given general Anaesthesia and the arm bone was fixed. Subsequently the veins, arteries, nerves and tendons were repaired and the surgery was completed. The blood circulation was re-established in the cut hand within 6 hours of amputation. She was discharged after a 2-week stay at the hospital with the full hand. “The preservation of the amputated hand in a clean bag, with the bag surrounded by ice cubes, the immediate attention of the team at casualty,” says Dr Anurag Chitranshi.</p>
<p>The trauma team at Prime Hospitals here, led by plastic surgeon Dr Anurag Chitranshi and senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon-director Dr Sathish Reddy, recently performed a highly complex surgery to re-implant the right arm of a 12-year-old girl. <br /><br /></p>.<p> The girl, Thanishka, was brought to the emergency department at around 1:30 pm with accidental entrapment of her right arm in an elevator. Preliminary examination showed her hand was cut at a level just above the wrist and she bled from the amputation stump, while remaining conscious and co-operative. <br /><br />The amputated arm was brought in a plastic bag put in a thermacol box filled with ice pieces and ice packs, as is desired for a successful re-implantation. <br /><br />Doctors in the emergency department resuscitated, stabilised her and did dressing for the arm. The amputated hand was sent to the operation theatre immediately.<br /><br />Doctors started surgery on the amputated hand at 2:30 pm. Thanishka was wheeled into the operation theatre by 3:30 pm and the marathon eight-hour surgery began to re-implant the arm. A team comprising of Plastic Surgeon Dr Anurag Chitranshi, Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Sathish Reddy and Dr BSV Raju, Neurosurgeon & Diredctor to operated on her. <br /><br />Initially, she was given general Anaesthesia and the arm bone was fixed. Subsequently the veins, arteries, nerves and tendons were repaired and the surgery was completed. The blood circulation was re-established in the cut hand within 6 hours of amputation. She was discharged after a 2-week stay at the hospital with the full hand. “The preservation of the amputated hand in a clean bag, with the bag surrounded by ice cubes, the immediate attention of the team at casualty,” says Dr Anurag Chitranshi.</p>
