The unit of Hand and Microsurgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Kasturba Hospital, led by unit head, Anil K. Bhat, successfully performed a major replantation surgery on a 30-year-old patient who came to the hospital with an amputated arm caused accidentally at his place of work.
A press release issued by the hospital here on Tuesday said that this was the first time that a surgery of this nature was performed in Udupi district. It took all of three hours to complete the surgery.
The patient came at around noon on December 3, 2018. His arm was severed at the mid-arm level and the amputated part was in a healthy condition as the accident had happened only one hour earlier.
The patient’s relatives were told about the options, including the possibility of replantation and its related risks. With consent from them, the patient was immediately shifted for emergency surgery and the replantation of arm was completed by Orthopaedic surgeons Ashwath Acharya, Naveen Mathai and Siddarth Kamath under the guidance of Dr. Bhat with anaesthesia support from Manjunath Prabhu, Arun Kumar and Laxmi Shenoy.
