and its success reaches 60%.
Umm Muhammad started her morning as usual .. Then she sat next to her four-year-old to prepare lunch, without knowing that the tragedy would weave her classes soon after, when she went from her place to the refrigerator, she suddenly heard a loud cry screaming, then hurried to the place of the child next to the meat grinder, and it was The tragedy happened when she screamed her child''s fingers inside the mincer and it turned into a pile of minced meat, when he tried to put the cuts of meat in the mincer as his mother was doing and after undergoing 16-hour surgery, the surgeon team was only able to return one finger to his hand due to the large crushing of the fingers The arteries and veins are cut.
In the emergency department of the King Fahd Hospital of the National Guard, (Riyadh) was present on the sidelines of this sad tragedy, so I went to the department of reconstructive surgery, which is one of the seven departments in the hospital''s emergency center, and met Dr. Abdullah Muhammad Al-Namla, a consultant plastic surgery and hand surgery Complex and accurate surgeries that allow the palm, arm, fingers and feet to be fully restored to their bodies for full functioning.
Initially, Dr. Al-Namlah explained that he receives them in the hospital about (6) cases per year related to amputation of the entire amputation, while other cases such as fractures, cuts of tendons and cut off the skin reach up to 10 20 cases per day, mostly as a result of traffic accidents or playing football, in addition to some cases Children and accidents closing doors, asking parents, especially mothers, to take precautionary measures to ensure the safety of children from the impact of the presence of such sensitive devices as the meat mincer, saying: (This device is more dangerous than good, and we have received many cases of children whose fingers were broken and reached to the palm Because of the wrong behavior of a face G chopping, on the last Eid al-Adha, we received two cases of two children under seven years of age, and we could not return any of their fingers due to the smash that affected all the fingers of the hand).
He added that returning the amputated organ depends on the time of the injury to the injured and the type of device that caused the injury, such as a meat mincer or sharp machine, accident or occurrence of a solid object on the organ, as it depends on the age of the injured and some of his habits. If the injured is a smoker, this will have a negative role On the injury, and for the elderly and the young, the amputated man usually does not succeed because he is exposed after the surgery to the lack of sensation and then to infections that may affect the patient''s health and lead to the possibility of death.
Preservation method
On the amputated organ
He pointed out that the best way to preserve an amputated organ during the accident and the precise process stages. He said: The best way to save the amputated organ is to wrap the wet gauze and then enter the preservative bag and place it over the ice, and this may save it for 96 hours after the injury. As for the stages of reconstructive surgery, it begins by cleaning the wound, removing dead cells, finding arteries and veins in the amputated and amputated organ, and fixing the bone After shortening and connecting the arteries and then the veins and then the nerves and tendons, explaining that the devices used in this type of surgery are a microscope that is magnified up to 25 times and which we rely on in this type of operation because we deal with very accurate veins and arteries, and the strings Used with this surgery is not seen with the naked eye, stressing that if the amputated organ returns to work by 60%, we will consider this a success and excellence.
