Brain imaging image of children Courtesy of Department of Neurosurgery, Wuhan Children's Hospital
Wuhan, January 10, 2019 When writing homework, father and son had an argument, the father was so angry that he reached out and beat the baby, the child immediately raised his hand to block, forgetting that there was a sharpened pencil in his hand, and the tip of the pen was inserted straight into the back of the head! At Wuhan Children's Hospital, after overnight emergency surgery, the child finally turned the corner and was discharged from the hospital on the 9th. Experts remind that foreign bodies entering the body are very dangerous and must be sent to the hospital immediately for treatment.
The 8-year-old boy Jump jump (pseudonym) is a second-grade elementary school student, smart and mischievous. 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, 2021, after Jumping finished writing his homework, his father checked and found that his handwriting was too messy, so he asked to rewrite the handwriting neatly. Jumping and grinding and rubbing for half a day refused to write, Dad was suddenly angry, raised his hand to fight, "experienced" jump busy with his hands to block. At this time, he just happened to have a sharpened pencil in his hand and poked directly into the back of the child's head.
The doctor took out a pencil and provided a picture of the Department of Neurosurgery of Wuhan Children's Hospital
At about 8 p.m. that night, the parents sent the jump to the emergency department of Wuhan Children's Hospital. The child was quickly admitted to the neurosurgery department in preparation for emergency surgery. Neurosurgeon Huang Wenkai found that the pencil was worn obliquely from the child's occipital part to the right neck, entering about 7 cm of the body, but 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.
Doctors carefully removed the complete pencil, fearing that the remains of graphite or wood chips increased the risk of infection, repeatedly rinsed the wound during the procedure, and injected tetanus needles for anti-infection and debridement treatment. After a day of treatment and observation in the ICU, on January 2, Jump was successfully transferred to the general ward.
"Jumping is lucky, chopsticks are 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, reminded parents that once a stick, chopsticks, etc. are inserted into the face, do not rush to remove, should rush 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.
(China News Network)