Mumbai: A team of Dr Roy Patankar, Dr Batuk Diyora , Dr Ashish Soneji, Dr Harshad Binniwale, MICU team and casualty team from Zen Multi-Specialty Hospital, Chembur, performed a successful surgery of a six-year-old girl Sejal Yadav, who met with an accident.
She fell from an eight-ft height on a metallic rod that pierced into the head resulting penetrating injury at right frontal-parietal region while playing at Chembur. Sejal was brought to the hospital in an unconscious state.
Family of Sejal removed the rod on the site and took her to local hospital for treatment. But doctors there did local dressing and referred her to Zen Multi-Specialty Hospital for further treatment. After filing a police case, Sejal was admitted at Zen Hospital.
Doctors performed local examination revealed wound over frontal-parietal region with brain matter coming out through fractured skull bone. In the CT scan, it was noticed that right fronto-parietal depressed fracture with bifrontal hematoma along the rod tract.
Code blue team of the hospital opertated the child within 1-1/2 hours in middle of the night. She was operated for depressed fracture; depressed bone fragments were removed and Dural tear was repaired. Post-surgery, she was on ventilator and later slowly removed from ventilator. After regaining consciousness, she was discharged within 10 days.