Hai Duong successfully reattaches severed finger with microsurgery for first time

The operated finger is dry and scared with no signs of infection

According to doctors at the Department of Surgery 1 (Trauma - Orthopedics) of the provincial General Hospital, seven days after surgery, the seam on a finger of Tran Van Binh (58 years old, living in Cam Giang district) was dry and scared with no signs of infection.

The patient recuperated well and was instructed to exercise gently.

Earlier, on October 15, Binh was swept into a wood power-saw while at work. The thumb of his left hand was almost cut off, bleeding profusely and leaving only a small piece of skin.

The patient had his severed thumb given first aid and was immediately transferred to the provincial General Hospital for emergency.

Doctors at the Department of Surgery 1 used a modern microscope of the hospital when reattaching the bone, flexor and extensor tendons, arteries, veins, and nerves of the patient’s left thumb.

After the three-hour surgery, the patient was splinted and closely monitored for extremity blood supply, took antibiotics and anticoagulants, etc.

The replantation of limbs, especially a severed finger, is a complicated technique that requires surgical and anesthetic teams to have a lot of experience and in-depth techniques, particularly microsurgery, as blood vessels and nerves only about 1 mm wide must be rejoined under a multiple magnification electron microscope.

The above case is the first to be done in Hai Duong. The provincial General Hospital is also one of very few provincial hospitals in the North that can perform this difficult technique.

DANG HIEU