Al-Ahsa
A medical team at King Fahd Hospital in Al-Ahsa managed to rescue a person (38 years) who had been hit by a barrage of bullets in his lower limbs, as the doctors worked tirelessly for 10 hours. The injured man is still receiving treatment in hospital, and he is receiving medical care. The head of the orthopedic department at the hospital, Dr. Khaled Al-Mumten, confirmed, in a press statement yesterday, that the emergency department received during the evening period of the current month of Ramadan, the injured person covered in blood, and in a state of shock as a result of being hit by explosive bullets in his lower limbs, which led to the shattering and fragmentation of the bones The right thigh and laceration and rupture of the muscles of the thighs and behind the left knee, accompanied by severe bleeding as a result of rupture and laceration of the veins of the lower extremities, in addition to entrapment of the perfusion to the distal parts of the lower extremities as a result of femoral arterial injuries. He added that the patient was immediately resuscitated in the emergency department and initial examinations were carried out before he was urgently transferred to the operating room in coordination with the various relevant specialties, as the operation took ten continuous hours, during which the bleeding from the severed veins and lacerated arteries was controlled, and after that it was repeated Connecting the severed veins, re-perfusion to the affected limbs through building and repairing the labyrinthine arteries, and fixing the fracture of the thigh bone with an internal pin, which made the lower limb more stable and stable, and after the operation ended, the patient was transferred to the intensive care room where he recovered well, and he will be transferred to the ward in order to complete Medical rehabilitation. Dr. Ali Al-Salman, a consultant vascular surgeon at the hospital, Dr. Yassin Al-Rasasi, and a consultant vascular surgery at the hospital, Dr. Muhammad Al-Mumten, participated in the operation, stressing that the patient''s life was threatened due to severe bleeding.
