SCB docs successfully reattach tribal girl’s severed limb | Bhubaneswar News
Cuttack: Doctors at SCB Medical College and Hospital successfully performed their first-ever lower limb replantation surgery on an eight-year-old tribal girl from Mayurbhanj district.
The girl met with a road accident on March 14 that resulted in her left leg getting severed from the lower thigh. She was taken to SCB Medical College where a multidisciplinary team of doctors from the departments of plastic surgery, orthopaedic and anesthesia performed the complex four-hour surgery.
“This was a highly challenging case due to the severity of the injury and the patient’s young age,” said Dr Bibhuti Nayak, head of the plastic surgery department, who led the surgical team.
The procedure involved intricate repair of bones, blood vessels, muscles and nerves. “The replanted limb is responding well,” Dr Nayak added. The girl is currently under observation in the paediatric ICU and will remain there for 48 hours before being transferred to the plastic surgery ward.
Dr Dhiramayee Behera from the anesthesia department highlighted the unique challenges of administering anesthesia to a young patient with loose teeth. “Airway management was particularly difficult, but we managed to overcome these challenges,” she said.
Dr Tapas Panigrahi, associate professor of orthopaedics, credited the success to excellent interdepartmental coordination. “This achievement opens new possibilities for limb salvage cases,” he noted.
The girl met with a road accident on March 14 that resulted in her left leg getting severed from the lower thigh. She was taken to SCB Medical College where a multidisciplinary team of doctors from the departments of plastic surgery, orthopaedic and anesthesia performed the complex four-hour surgery.
“This was a highly challenging case due to the severity of the injury and the patient’s young age,” said Dr Bibhuti Nayak, head of the plastic surgery department, who led the surgical team.
The procedure involved intricate repair of bones, blood vessels, muscles and nerves. “The replanted limb is responding well,” Dr Nayak added. The girl is currently under observation in the paediatric ICU and will remain there for 48 hours before being transferred to the plastic surgery ward.
Dr Dhiramayee Behera from the anesthesia department highlighted the unique challenges of administering anesthesia to a young patient with loose teeth. “Airway management was particularly difficult, but we managed to overcome these challenges,” she said.
Dr Tapas Panigrahi, associate professor of orthopaedics, credited the success to excellent interdepartmental coordination. “This achievement opens new possibilities for limb salvage cases,” he noted.
