HCMC – A 20-year-old girl was unfortunately run over by a car, hospitalized with a heart attack, lung collapse, bilateral pneumothorax, traumatic brain injury… and was fortunate to be saved.
On April 10, Trung Vuong Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said that after many days of active treatment, the hospital saved the life of a patient who was run over by a car and suffered multiple serious injuries.
Previously, a 20-year-old girl living in Ho Chi Minh City had a traffic accident with a 7-seater car while traveling on the road and was run over, causing a heart attack, lung collapse, bilateral pneumothorax, and traumatic brain injury. Brain.
Immediately, the patient was taken to Tan Phu District Hospital for emergency treatment, where doctors quickly intubated him and performed clinical tests. Due to his serious condition, the patient was transferred to Trung Vuong Hospital for emergency treatment.
Here, the patient had a cardiac arrest, so the doctors issued a red alert, bypassing administrative procedures to save the life. The patient received cardiac resuscitation, a right pleural drain was placed, and a whole-body CT-scan was performed. The results showed that patients with traumatic brain injury, lung contusion causing pneumothorax, lung consolidation, heart contusion, pneumoperitoneum, rib fracture number 1…
Doctor 2 Nguyen Thien Binh, Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Poison Control at Trung Vuong Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the patient was taken to the operating room and the specialists actively rescued and treated cerebral edema and administered vasoactive drugs. , mechanical ventilation protects the lungs. After 5 days of intensive treatment, the patient stopped taking vasopressors and showed signs of regaining consciousness, but both sides still had significant pneumothorax, so treatment continued. 15 days later, the patient fully recovered consciousness, improved breathing, was removed from the ventilator, and 3 days later, all pleural drainage tubes were removed.
This is a rare case, with a high prognosis of death, but thanks to the efforts of the hospital team of doctors and the patient, he made a remarkable recovery. It is expected that the patient will be discharged from the hospital in the next few days.