When writing homework, father and son had an argument, the father was angry and reached out to beat the baby, the child immediately raised his hand to block, but forgot that he had a sharpened pencil in his hand, and the tip of the pen was inserted straight into the back of the head! On January 10, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from Wuhan Children's Hospital that after overnight emergency surgery, the child finally turned the corner and has now recovered and been discharged.
It is understood that the 8-year-old boy Jump jump (pseudonym) is a second-grade elementary school student, smart and naughty. Near the end of the term, Mom and Dad prepared some revision questions for Jump to do consolidation exercises.
On the evening of December 31, After Jump finished writing his homework, his father checked and found that his accuracy rate was still good, but the handwriting was too messy, so he asked Jump to write the words neatly.
"I think I'm writing pretty well." Who knew that Jumping was very unhappy, began to sharpen his mouth, and left the desk. In the face of his father's several dissuasions, he still rolled his eyes and muttered, taking an eraser for a while, looking for a ruler, grinding and rubbing for half a day and refusing to write.
So he provoked his father to be angry and raised his hand to fight. Who knows jumping and jumping and rushing to block with their hands. At this time, I forgot that I was holding a sharpened pencil in my hand.
The parent slapped it down, and as a result, he poked the pencil straight into the back of the child's head.
At about 8 p.m., parents sent Jump to the emergency department of Wuhan Children's Hospital. At this time, the child was conscious, his limbs were flexible, there was no obvious blood on the surface of the wound, and he was quickly admitted to the neurosurgery department to prepare for emergency surgery.
Huang Wenkai, Department of Neurosurgery, Wuhan Children's Hospital, introduced that under the escort of anesthesiologists, the operation began at 11:00 p.m., and it was found that the pencil was diagonally penetrated from the child's occipital part to the right neck, entering about 7cm, fortunately it was not inserted into the skull.
"However, the situation is also dangerous – the pencil is only a few millimeters away from the spinal canal, and the vertebral artery is near the pencil. If the spinal canal is broken, the child may be paralyzed, and if the artery is injured, the child's life is in danger on the spot. Dr. Huang Wenkai carefully removed the complete pencil, worried about the increased risk of infection in the body of graphite or wood chips residue, repeatedly rinsed the trauma tunnel during the operation, and injected tetanus needles for anti-infection and debridement treatment.
It is understood that after a day of treatment and observation in the ICU, Jump was successfully transferred to the general ward on January 2.
"Jump is lucky, the pencil is not inserted into the skull, otherwise the risk of infection is greatly increased." Du Hao, director of the Department of Neurosurgery of Wuhan Children's Hospital, introduced that before, the hospital also received boys who ran while eating, chopsticks inserted into the skull after wrestling, and girls with snack bamboo sticks directly inserted into the bottom of the tongue, and the treatment process was thrilling. Some parents unplug the foreign body themselves before seeking medical treatment, which is absolutely prohibited and very dangerous.
Director Du Hao reminded parents that for young children, it is necessary to make good rules, and must not run around with chopsticks, forks, sticks and other items when eating, and even more can not run and play with things in their mouths, so as to avoid accidents. For school-age children, do a good job of safety education, adjust their emotions when tutoring homework, and don't be too impulsive. Once a stick, chopsticks, etc. are inserted into the face, do not rush to remove, should be rushed to the hospital as soon as possible to deal with, in case of injury to large blood vessels, forced extraction may cause intracranial hemorrhage is life-threatening.
Correspondent Gao Chenchen
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Haoxiong
Source: Beijing Youth Daily client
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