Suffocating emergency surgery for 12-year-old boy shot in the head

On the afternoon of November 14, the Central Highlands General Hospital announced that after more than 3 hours, the hospital's doctors and nurses performed emergency surgery and removed a 4x4mm bullet from a 12-year-old patient who was shot through the head.

The boy is being treated at the hospital. Photo: NH

According to Dr. Huynh Nhu Dong, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, at around 6:00 p.m. on November 13, the hospital received patient D.GB (12 years old, residing in Ea Kar town, Ea Kar district, Dak Lak ) with a traumatic brain injury caused by firearms, bilateral temporal skull fractures, bilateral subdural hematomas, brain contusions, and cerebral hemorrhage.

According to the family, the patient was shot through the head with a homemade gun.

After that, the doctors and nurses consulted and decided to perform emergency surgery on the patient and remove a bullet measuring 4x4mm.

The patient is now out of danger, conscious, able to feel pain and is being closely monitored. The patient's prognosis is improving, and he is being given high doses of antibiotics to recover.

It is known that the Central Highlands General Hospital is keeping the bullet in the Anesthesia and Resuscitation Department to serve the investigation of the authorities.

Patient B's mother said that on the afternoon of November 13, her son came home from school and went to his friend's house to play, and the horrific incident happened.

Currently, the family is focusing on treating their child first, then will find out the cause of the incident and request clarification.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/nghet-tho-ca-mo-cap-cuu-be-trai-12-tuoi-bi-sung-ban-vao-dau-192231114161641073.htm