Blunt trauma chest causing tear in windpipe & foodpipe – a rare case treated at Paras Health
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ August 8,2023
Doctors at Paras Health, Panchkula, a leading health care provider of the region, gave a new lease of life to a 16 years old boy who got a blunt injury to his chest in a road accident.
In a press release, the hospital claimed that the boy was initially admitted in other hospitals but injuries could not be picked up. Then he was rushed to Paras Health, Panchkula in a very serious condition.
On investigation, he was found to have fracture in breast bone (Sternum) injury to large vessel in chest. Small embeli from this blood vessel reached the brain causing weakness of the upper limb with life threatening injuries there.
Giving information, Dr Rajan Sahu, Associate Director, Surgical Oncology said ,”This was a rare case with only few cases been reported in medical literature so far. No other hospital was willing to take it up but we understood the problem and a special panel of doctors discussed and went ahead to help the family,”
The panel included Dr Sahu, Dr. Veenu Kaul, Associate Director CTVS, Dr Anurag Lamba, Associate Director Neurology, Dr SK Gupta, Associate Director, Pulmonology, Dr Ashish Arora, Associate Director, Critical Care and Anaesthesia team led by Dr Ashwini.
It was a six hour long surgery and in a difficult situation during surgery, separate tubes were put in both lungs to give him anesthesia.
There were life threatening injuries as large tears in food pipes (Esophagus) and wind pipes trachea caused severe infection in the chest, said Dr Sahu.
Dr Ashwini added, “Not only surgery, even giving anaesthesia to this patient was a challenge. He needed separate ventilation for both lungs with small sized tubes, so that repair on windpipe did not get disturbed by these tubes.”
A team of doctors decided to treat the patient further; it was a technically challenging case. By surgery, his food pipe and windpipe were repaired and a feeding tube put in his small intestine.
For a few days, the patient was kept on a ventilator and managed with due care. Slowly in a phased manner he was taken out of the ventilator. He improved and was discharged from hospital in stable condition.
Dr Ashish Arora, Associate Director, Critical Care and Anaesthesia team said, “Every step in surgery is well thought of and executed. Even after surgery it was a challenge to maintain his nutrition, oxygen level in blood and prevent any superadded infection at the same time.”
Blunt trauma chest causing tear in windpipe & foodpipe – a rare case treated at Paras Health. Boy’s parents said,” Paras team has given us back our son and always assured us. We are so happy to come to Dr Rajan Sahu and thanks to all at Paras Health for helping our son. We are now going back with our son who can start a normal life soon.”
Dr Jatinder Arora, Zonal Director Paras Health said,”Paras Health is fully equipped to handle these kinds of critical emergencies. We have round the clock arrangements to treat fatal road accident critical injured cases. We always aspire to offer the best medical services with the sole objective of putting patient’s health and welfare first.”
