In the early morning of April 11, Zhang Zhaopeng, an emergency surgeon at Peking University People's Hospital, sent a message in the circle of friends that aroused everyone's attention.
It turned out that Dr. Zhang, who was on duty at night, encountered a "strange" case at 2:30 a.m. "The patient is a 55-year-old man, accompanied by his daughter when he came, the patient's painful face, pointing to the waist and saying that it hurts", Dr. Zhang immediately asked about the situation, the original patient did not work, there was no medical insurance, because of the lumbar keyboard protrusion, often low back pain, many times to the hospital has no obvious effect, the cost of going to the hospital is not small, it was decided to administer their own injections, has been treated for more than half a month.
"Tonight the waist is very uncomfortable, more than 9 o'clock or regular self-tying, who knows not tied well, the needle is broken inside!" The patient explained bitterly.
In addition to the patient's complaint of pain, in the right side of the lumbar spine is only 2cm, you can see a needle eye trace left by multiple injections, the broken needle has long been hidden "without a trace", Dr. Zhang tried to take it, could not find it. "Patients have been out for medical treatment for more than 5 hours, a long time, with the movement of muscles, the broken needle will go deeper, if not removed in time, once the spinal nerves and large blood vessels are injured, the consequences are unimaginable."
Dr. Zhang immediately activated the multidisciplinary joint diagnosis emergency mechanism, contacted the CT room staff, and searched for the whereabouts of the needle in the thick muscle layer through the repeated localization accuracy of the image. The three-point operation officially begins, from positioning, disinfection, incision, exploration, to finding, removing, hemostasis, suturing, tetanus treatment, bandaging... It was busy until five o'clock in the morning.
Finally, the 10-centimeter-long broken needle was found, and the patients and family members who had removed the fatal hidden danger hugged their fists and thanked them one after another.
Needles broken into the human body, can travel in the body, may stab vital organs and large blood vessels, causing great damage. Professor Feng Quanling, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Peking University People's Hospital, reminded everyone that acupuncture should be completed by professionals, and there is a risk in applying needles by yourself; once the needle is found, do not be nervous, reduce activity, avoid the needle falling deeper, and go to the regular hospital to get the needle as soon as possible; if the needle remains in the body, it will become a foreign body for a long time, forming granuloma, which can cause greater infection.
Source: Workers Daily client Workers Daily reporter Ji Wei
Source: Workers Daily