AIIMS Bhubaneswar Doctors Join Woman's Severed Arm In Over 8-Hour Surgery
NDTV
The severed left forearm was attached to the body by doctors in an operation which lasted for more than eight hours.
A team of doctors of AIIMS Bhubaneswar successfully replanted the completely severed left forearm of a woman, an official of the medical institute said.
The severed left forearm was attached to the body by doctors in an operation which lasted for more than eight hours.
Twenty-five-year-old Barsha Das of Puri district was working at her home when her dupatta got stuck in the rice-cutting machine along with her left hand on December 9. She was immediately taken to a local government hospital where primary treatment was given, The amputated part of the arm was kept in an ice bath and the patient was taken to the Emergency department of AIIMS Bhubaneswar at 9 pm on the same day.
The patient was immediately planned for re-implantation surgery on the same night at around 11:30 pm by a team led by Dr Sanjay Kumar Giri (Head of Burns & Plastic Surgery).
