Sagaya Fernando Mumbai: 6 November 22 A team of doctors at Apollo Multispecialty hospital in Triuchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, saved the life of a 33-years-old man whose neck was pierced through by a feet long iron rod. Karthikeyan, a resident of Ariyamangalam in the city, was watering the concrete slabs on the first floor of his under-construction house when he accidentally slipped and fell 15 to 20 feet down, on October 15. As he fell, a 5 feet long iron rod with serrated edges pierced through his neck and came out from the back. “Within fifteen minutes of the mishap, his relatives rushed him to our hospital which is in close vicinity,” informed Apollo Multispecialty Hospital, Triuchirappalli, Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon Dr Mohamed Mansoor, who led the operating team. “On evaluation in emergency, it was seen that he had a 5 feet long iron rod penetrating into the anterior aspect of neck and exiting the posterior aspect of neck.
Doctors save man choking on live fish that slithered into his mouth
Sagaya Fernando
Mumbai: 26 April 2020
60-year-old Kadalaparambil Krishnan, suffering from
speech impairment since young, has been fishing in the freshwater canal near
his house at Edakkazhiyur near the town of Chavakkad in coastal Kerala, India,
since childhood. On 21st April, it was like any other day for him
after a netting a catch of karimeen (Pearl
Spot) fish. While picking the catch from the net, he suddenly collapsed on to
the ground. It was gathered later that, while collecting the fishes from the
net, he was holding onto the live fish by his teeth while reaching out to
gather the other fishes caught in the net, when the fish slipped from his teeth
and went deep into his throat.
When people standing in the vicinity rushed to his
help, unable to speak he motioned his hands towards his mouth and that’s when they
realized that a live fish had slithered deep into his mouth and he was choking
on it. Krishnan’s son and son-in-law who were informed about the incident put him
on a motorbike and rushed to the nearest hospital at Chavakkad, but the doctors
there referred him to a better equipped Amala Institute of Medical Sciences
located in Thrissur, about 25 kms away.
“Krishnan was gasping for breath and was in a serious
condition when he was brought to our hospital,” informed ENT specialist and Associate
Professor Dr Arjun G Menon of Amala Hospital who attended on the patient.
He further added, “There was
no time to shift the patient to an operation theatre as he was gasping when he
reached our hospital casualty, and so we decided to conduct the extraction of
the fish from his throat without any further delay.”
“Luckily
for Krishnan, somewhere there was space for air entry hence did not die.
The brain is extremely sensitive to the complete lack of oxygen for even 6 to 8
minutes,” said he.
“The extraction procedure lasted less than 10 minutes
wherein the entire karimeen fish was
pulled out of the patient’s throat and we were able to save Krishnan’s life,”
said Dr Menon.
“It is a rare incident, and the timely medical help
saved his life,” said he.
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