Surgeons at Quang Nam General Hospital repaired the severed thigh vessels of a 12-year-old boy who rode an electric bicycle into a suddenly opened car door, Báo Đà Nẵng reports. The crash happened on the afternoon of October 24, when a parked car opened its door in the boy's path.
He lost a lot of blood at the scene. The hospital activated its emergency "red alert" protocol, treated him for shock, gave blood transfusions and took him straight to the operating room. Doctors found a complex crush injury to the left thigh and a severed femoral artery and vein, and said that without prompt surgery the leg could have died and needed amputation.
The Trauma-Orthopaedics and Burns Centre team, led by specialist doctor Trần Phước Việt, cleaned the wound and grafted the damaged artery and vein using the great saphenous vein. The gap in the vessels was nearly 10 centimetres.
The hospital says the boy is now out of critical danger, with stable vital signs and his left foot warm and pink, and movement and feeling in his toes are returning. It urges parents to supervise children who ride electric bicycles or motorbikes, and riders to keep a safe distance from parked vehicles and control their speed.
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