(HNMO) - On the evening of May 17, Ho Chi Minh City Children's Hospital informed about a stressful emergency case following red alert procedures to save the life of a 12-year-old patient with a ruptured liver after a traffic accident.
On May 12, patient NTK, 12 years old, living in Ben Tre province, was playing with friends when he fell on the road and was run over by a truck in the abdomen. He was taken to Ben Tre General Hospital for emergency treatment. Doctors diagnosed multiple injuries, gave first aid and urgently transferred him to Ho Chi Minh City Children's Hospital.
The medical team of the Emergency Department set up a central line and continuously resuscitated the blood. The red alert procedure was activated, the general surgery team - thoracic and vascular - was mobilized, and the patient was transferred to emergency surgery. In total, from the time of the accident until the end of the surgery, the patient lost up to 3 liters of blood.
Doctors had to transfuse 18 bags of packed red blood cells, and replenish many other blood products (plasma, cryoprecipitate, platelets), totaling 4 liters... in a stressful surgery that lasted more than 4 hours.
As of the evening of May 17, after 5 days of intensive post-operative resuscitation treatment at the Department of Surgical Resuscitation with the coordination of specialists, the patient gradually regained consciousness, improved most of the affected organ functions, pink skin and mucous membranes, soft abdomen, and temporarily passed the critical stage.
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