Doctors at Narayana Hospital Howrah, Saved a 7-Year-Old Braveheart

News Desk, News Nation 360 : A 7-year-old girl has overcome insurmountable odds to overcome imminent fatality after a catastrophic road traffic accident (RTA) left her fighting for her life with multiple life-threatening injuries. This is a stunning monument to tenacity, medical excellence, and the indomitable human spirit. Narayana Hospital in Howrah successfully treated a young girl who had sustained devastating injuries in a bad accident. She arrived in severe shock and was found to be critically unstable with severe injuries such as lung contusion, liver laceration, kidney and urethral injury, pelvic fracture, and a huge degloving injury over her right thigh and needed massive blood transfusions and support. Despite the serious prognosis, a multidisciplinary team with experts in critical care, surgery, orthopaedics, and plastic surgery decided on a cautious conservative management. The initial 12 hours were highly critical. In the emergency surgery, the medical team found an unusual complication: a very inflated bladder caused by internal blood clots. This was followed by a difficult four-week stay in the ICU during which she struggled with breathing difficulties, infections, and severe pain, her recovery greatly facilitated by the committed efforts of the medical staff. One of the poignant moments was on March 8th, when her 7th birthday was commemorated in the ICU. Six emotionally draining weeks later, she was eventually discharged on March 19th. Despite continued skin grafting and physiotherapy, she has shown tremendous improvement, now sitting and soon to walk, demonstrating unflinching grit. Dr Goutam Chakraborty, Consultant - Paediatric & Neonatal Surgery, Narayana Hospital, Howrah, stated that they carried out the emergency high-risk operation for the serious multiple injuries she had, and while operating, they discovered that she had sustained unusual and unusual injuries internally. She was in hypovolemic shock (a state where the volume of circulating blood is critically low & the heart cannot sustain the minimum blood supply required for the proper functioning of vital organs) due to internal bleeding from multiple sources. Other than the bleeding from the kidney, liver, etc, they came across a gargantuan urinary bladder packed with gigantic blood clots blocking urine passage, which in turn was compressing the Inferior Venacava (abdominal main vein responsible for peripheral circulation). Blood clots were drained & urinary bypass was created. This operation, however, spared the risk of immediate death. She went on fighting various medical complications such as pneumonia, sepsis, etc, which were treated in the ICU under the care of Dr Shubhadeep Das.

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