On the afternoon of January 6, a 3-year-old girl accidentally fell from bed due to playing at home, causing a "star" magnetic nail to be inserted into the skull, and her parents immediately sent her to the emergency department of Shanghai Children's Hospital.
The "star" magnetic nail on the child's head. The pictures in this article are all courtesy of Shanghai Children's Hospital
Shanghai Children's Hospital revealed to the surging news reporter that when he was first admitted to the hospital, the doctor also thought that the child was wearing a beautiful "star" hair ornament on his head, but he did not expect that it was a nail inserted into the skull.
In the face of the doctor's inquiry, the parents of the children said that the child was at home with another child on the morning of the 6th, and accidentally fell from the bed in the process, and the result happened to hit a magnetic nail with the handle facing upwards, that is, this "star".
Imaging findings show that magnetic nails are inserted into the skull.
According to ct examination, the magnetic nail smashed the child's skull and plunged into the brain about 1.3 centimeters, causing a dent fracture of the left parietal bone and extraceranial hemorrhage, and puncturing the meningeum, almost damaging the functional area of the brain.
After the incident, the child cried incessantly, fortunately there was no mental disorder, otherwise the result was unimaginable.
Subsequently, the team of Liu Jiangang, director of the Neurosurgery Department of Shanghai Children's Hospital, held an urgent discussion and unanimously decided to take a plan that was less invasive for the child to remove the foreign body. During the nearly 5-hour operation, the doctor successfully completed the work of removing the broken tissue, reducing the dented skull, returning the bone plate and fixing it with a resorbable fracture internal fixator. Finally, with the cooperation of neurosurgery, operating room and surgical intensive care unit, the medical staff successfully "picked the star".
At present, the child has left the surgical intensive care unit and returned to the general ward.
Zhan Qijia, a neurosurgeon at Shanghai Children's Hospital, reminds parents that children's skin, muscle and bone tissue are relatively weak, and their ability to protect the nervous system is naturally relatively weak, and it is easier to damage nerve tissue and have sequelae when they are injured to the same extent. When the child reaches the age of 3, it is necessary to give the child some daily safety education, and parents can show them their own practical actions, teach them repeatedly, teach them the correct way of behavior, educate them how to protect themselves, especially the head, and reduce the occurrence of accidental injuries.
In addition, parents can also choose to wear a lightweight anti-collision protective helmet for their children during daily activities, and they can also paste anti-collision devices in the corners of the home or on the surface of sharp furniture, etc., thereby greatly reducing the probability of being hit at home. At the same time, before practicing dance and carrying out sports, parents should pay attention to warming up activities with their children to reduce the probability of accidents in the process of activities.
Source: The Paper