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1963 is a memorable year in the history of the development of hand surgery in China, when the world's first amputation and reimplantation was successful in Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital.
On January 2, 1963, the palm of his right hand, Wang Cunbai, a 27-year-old worker at the Shanghai Machine Tool Steel Mold Factory, was completely crushed by a punch from about 1 inch above the wrist joint. After 7 and a half hours of surgery, Medical staff such as Chen Zhongwei and Qian Yunqing of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital received Wang Cunbai's severed right hand.
Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Chen Zhongwei (right) and Qian Yunqing (center) successfully performed severed hand reconnection surgery
The Ministry of Health at the time learned of this from an internal report, half a year later. Why did you report to the Ministry of Health so late? Because medically speaking, the broken hand is only connected and connected, but it cannot be said that the purpose has been truly achieved, and more importantly, it is necessary to restore the function. By July 1963, Wang Cunbai's hand had been taken over for half a year. After functional rehabilitation, his hand was not only able to lift heavy objects, but also write. This means that the broken hand is completely successful.
Qian Xinzhong (right), then vice minister of health, made a special trip to the hospital to visit Wang Cunbai, who had successfully undergone severed hand reattachment surgery
Qian Xinzhong, then vice minister of health, flew to Shanghai immediately after learning about it. He specially invited the first-class orthopedic experts and trauma experts in China to Shanghai for on-site inspection. There is a saying that "seeing is believing, hearing is false", the old expert listened to Chen Zhongwei's report in detail, then checked the patient, tested the function, and especially carefully looked at the photo taken before the operation. Subsequently, the Ministry of Health announced the results to the press, saying that the success of amputated limb replantation "was the explosion of an atomic bomb in the medical community".
The first report of severed limb replantation in China shocked China and foreign countries and opened a new page in the history of world surgery. Prior to this, the experimental research of amputation replantation at home and abroad has experienced more than 60 years of exploration, although there is no lack of successful experience in animal experiments, but the success of clinical practice is extremely rare. The significance of the success of severed limb replantation in China is not only that it shows the superb skills of China's medical personnel in the field of microsurgery such as nerves and blood vessels, but also enriches and develops the academic connotation of hand surgery in terms of trauma treatment principles, limb insulation, infection prevention, waterproof swelling and anti-coagulation.
In view of the important clinical value of the success of severed limb reimplantation and the profound scientific and technological content it contains, from August to October, Health News gave high-intensity and continuous attention to the reimplantation of severed limb, patients told their personal experiences, vividly reproduced superb medical skills, invited authoritative experts to deeply analyze the clinical value and scientific research achievements of successful surgery, published editorials, opened columns, and continuously and multi-level comprehensively reported on this major clinical research progress.
Health Newspaper, August 7, 1963, edition
A full-page edition of the Health Newspaper on August 7, 1963, covered the matter. In addition to publishing the Xinhua News Agency telegram, it was also distributed with "Thanking the Party for Reviving My Severed Hand" written by Wang Cunbai, who was treated for severed hands. Huang Jiasi, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, wrote an article entitled "A Major Event in China's Medical Circles", published an editorial entitled "Brilliant Examples" and distributed pictures.
Health Newspaper, August 10, 1963, edition
In August of that year, Premier Zhou Enlai and Vice Premier Chen Yi met with outstanding doctors from Shanghai Sixth Hospital who had broken their hands. Premier Zhou Enlai praised them for accomplishing a creative work of great significance in Chinese surgery. "Health News" reported on this on August 10, and on the same day also published an article by Zhang Kai, vice minister of health, entitled "Major Achievements, Gratifying Harvests".
From August 21 to 28, 1963, The Health Daily successively set up a column entitled "Learning from the Sixth People's Hospital of Shanghai", reporting that hospitals in Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan and other places have held forums to discuss how to learn from the Shanghai Sixth Hospital.
On August 31, the Ministry of Health published a notice calling on medical and health workers across the country to learn from the Sixth People's Hospital of Shanghai, and published Guo Moruo's handwriting of "Broken Wrist Reborn".
Guo Moruo's handwriting of "Broken Wrist Rebirth"
On October 13, it was reported that 4 papers such as "Broken Hand Reimplantation" read at the 20th International Surgical Conference in China were valued by experts from all over the world, praising the beautiful work of severed hand reimplantation, believing that this is the first successful example of human limb reimplantation surgery...
The first successful reimplantation of severed limbs is the first take-off of China's hand surgery cause, and it has also ushered in a new era of microsurgery for China's surgical technology. The authoritative interpretation, high-end comments and full attention of this major scientific research achievement of "Health News" occupy the "commanding heights" of medical science and technology reporting for the first time, fully reflecting the advantages and characteristics of "Health News" in relying on rich expert resources in medical science and technology reporting and timely following up on major progress in clinical scientific research.
Text: Health Daily reporter Tan Jiacai wrote and sorted
Editors: Xu Bingnan Zhang Fangfei
Audit: Yan Gong