During the long winter vacation, a 7-year-old girl accidentally fell from the third floor and fell to the cement floor on the first floor, causing the road to shatter and almost died. Fortunately, the Guangzhou doctors carried out emergency rescue operations all night long to snatch their lives from the hands of the god of death. Experts remind that during the holiday, the incidence of accidental injuries to children is high, and the most dangerous place is often the most familiar area such as family and playground, and parents must increase their awareness of protection.
A 7-year-old girl nearly died after falling from the third floor
Wang Xiao (pseudonym), 7 years old, is in the second grade of primary school in Jiangmen and is a well-behaved and sensible child. On January 8, she had just finished her interest class in the morning during the winter vacation, and in the afternoon she played at home with two children nearby. "Mom, I'll go upstairs and play." In order to get a mosaic brick outside the railing, Wang Xiao accidentally stumbled and fell directly from the third floor to the cement floor on the first floor.
"I was sitting in the doorway and I heard a 'boom' and thought something had fallen." Ms. Huang (pseudonym), Wang Xiao's mother, said that she did not run away until two other children ran down to tell her daughter that she had fallen.
"I called her, and she looked at me with her eyes open, but she couldn't speak and shed a lot of blood." Looking back on the situation at that time, Ms. Huang still has palpitations. Wang Xiao was rushed to the local hospital for treatment. Due to his injuries, he was unable to be treated in many hospitals. Until 11:00 p.m. that night, with the assistance of endotracheal intubation and ventilator, Wang Xiao was sent to Guangdong Sanjiu Brain Hospital.
Three-dimensional reconstructions showed multiple fragments of the little girl's skull.
"It was more than 7 hours since the accident occurred when I came to the hospital." Li Xingke, the attending physician of the Department of Neurology received by the hospital, introduced that the child's skull was fragmented and inserted into the brain tissue in many places, resulting in swelling of brain tissue and massive bleeding, and also formed a huge hematoma, and the entire skull was swollen like a balloon. "At that time, the child was unconscious, intermittently agitated, the right pupil was dilated, the reflection to light disappeared, and symptoms of cerebral hernia appeared, which was very urgent."
The child's "blood exchange" survived the difficult operation
However, the results of the preoperative examination really made the surgeon take a breath of cool air. The child loses more than half of the blood in the body, and has coagulation dysfunction, and may have cardiac arrest, difficulty in stopping bleeding or repeated bleeding at any time during the operation. "Surgery must be performed immediately to save lives." Professor Ouyang Hui, chief specialist of the hospital's major surgery department and director of the Department of Neurology, said that the doctor team quickly performed hematoma on the top of the right frontotemporal and hematoma removal in the brain for the child. "As soon as the cranial cavity was opened, a large amount of blood spurted out in an instant, splashing the surgeon's face." After an all-night struggle, the child was finally out of danger. "The intraoperative bleeding volume is as high as 1000ml, and the blood transfusion volume is more than 1600ml, which is equivalent to changing the blood of the whole body."
After giving comprehensive treatment such as hyperbaric oxygen and rehabilitation after surgery, Wang Xiao gradually recovered his health, his physical activities returned to normal, and he will be discharged from the hospital in the near future. "I like to draw, and I'll give it to my brother who loves it." Wang Xiao finally regained his former vibrancy.
The child, who was gradually recovering, gave the doctor a picture he had drawn.
Nowadays, during the winter vacation and Spring Festival, there is a high incidence of accidental injuries in children. Ouyang Hui reminded that children are active by nature and lack safety awareness, and parents must increase their awareness of protection to prevent accidental injuries and let children grow up healthily. "Once a fall occurs accidentally, parents must remain calm, if there is a coma, vomiting, convulsions, limb movement disorders and other serious conditions, the child needs to lie flat and send the child to the hospital in time."
Written by: Nandu reporter Wang Daobin correspondent Zheng Lin