Shailender Kr Pandey
New Delhi, 26 August
In a rare and life-threatening trauma case, doctors at Sarvodaya
Hospital, Sector 8, Faridabad,successfully saved the life of a 21-year-old woman who was dragged after
her clothes became entangled in the wheel of a tractor.
The accident left the young woman battling for her life, with severe shock and multiple
internal injuries, massive blood loss, a ruptured intestine and a torn diaphragm that caused her
stomach and colon to move into her chest.
The patient, a resident of Chiksoli village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, was rushed to Sarvodaya Hospital
in a critical condition, arriving in hemorrhagic shock with dangerously low blood pressure, a rapid heart
rate, severe abdominal pain, a hole in the intestine, breathing difficulty and uncontrolled bleeding from
her right leg due to major skin and tissue injury. Doctors immediately recognised that the injuries were
potentially fatal and that even a short delay could have resulted in irreversible shock, multiple organ
failure and death.
A trauma team, led by Dr Arjun Goel, Senior Consultant & Head, General & Minimally
Invasive Surgery, Sarvodaya Hospital, Sector 8, Faridabad, immediately took her for emergency
surgery. After nearly three hours of complex surgery, the team was able to repair the life-threatening
injuries and give the young woman a second chance at life.
Giving details of the case, Dr Arjun Goel, Senior Consultant & Head, General & Minimally Invasive
Surgery, said, “Recognising the severity of her condition, we immediately shifted her to the operation
theatre. Any delay in surgical intervention could have resulted in irreversible shock, multiple organ
failure and death. We repaired the torn diaphragm, moved her stomach and colon back into the
abdomen, removed the damaged part of the small intestine and reconnected it. We also inserted a
chest tube to drain fluid and air. For her severely injured leg, we removed damaged tissue and used
special vacuum therapy to support healing.”
