Using a hacksaw and a tile cutter to save a patient's hand stuck in a meat grinder
(Baonghean.vn) - On May 10, Nghe An General Hospital 115 performed emergency treatment and removed a meat grinder from the crushed right hand of a 38-year-old female patient residing in Van Dien commune, Nam Dan district.
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| Doctors at Nghe An General Hospital 115 try to save a female patient's hand that is stuck in a meat grinder. Photo: 115 General Hospital |
It is known that on the morning of May 10, 2018, this patient was putting meat into the grinder to make sausages when his hand was caught in the grinder. The accident crushed his hand, wrist and part of his arm.
The patient was taken to Nghe An General Hospital 115 by his family for emergency treatment, with his hand stuck in a large meat grinder. Hospital doctors treated the patient with anti-shock and painkillers, and had to use a hacksaw and a tile cutter to break the meat grinder out of the patient's arm.
At the family’s request, the patient has now been transferred to Hanoi in the hope of saving his arm. This is the first time that 115 General Hospital has received a patient whose arm was caught in a meat grinder.
Previously, the hospital had many times treated patients who had similar accidents, with their hands caught in rice threshing machines and sugarcane juicers./.
