Camagüey, March 5.- An unusual event disrupted the February 29 nightwatch of Dr. Niurys Aguilar Ramírez when she received Provincial Henry Cristian, a 13-year-old boy with a harpoon, at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital in this city. in the abdominal region that compromised his life.
Without wasting a second, according to the first-degree specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, they activated the emergency work team and everyone gave their best and made the procedure a success.
Four hours and 15 minutes passed in the operating room of the aforementioned hospital center, where a group of angels in white coats made the impossible, the miracle.
Another of the participants in that challenge was Dayannelis Aguilar Atanay, a second-degree specialist in pediatric surgery, who assured that since she arrived at the emergency room she was very well managed by the emergency service and anesthesiologists who with agility and professionalism worked to replace the volume.
When we reached the abdomen, he said, we found that he had an intestinal injury and a vascular injury, in the inferior vena cava, which is an important vessel that compromised the patient's life and we had to request the specialists from the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Hospital who came quickly, Therefore, we are sure that the result that we show today is the fruit of the efforts of many people.
One of the doctors who attended was the angiologist Raúl Romay Buitrago, who recognized in conversation with the Cuban News Agency, the complexity of the surgery and the positive results they had for having clear concepts of urgency and teamwork, just like that Lives are saved, he stressed.
Although anesthesiologist Georgina Sánchez Andújar has more than 27 years of experience, cases like this never cease to impact her.
We perform a large-scale damage control surgery because the most important thing at that moment is to save the patient's life, where transfusions are given and volume replacement has to be vigorous for the patient to survive, and in this case it was 75 percent, Sánchez reported.
The young Daimel Rodríguez Lugones, head of the Anesthesiology service, added that they were as support in the face of a large-scale event and his surprise was great when he met a very conservative child who cooperated with the anesthesia interview and who luckily did not move the. foreign object in his body to avoid further complications.
He added that at all times they had the necessary materials to carry out their work such as plasmas, platelets, albumins and they managed to keep his vital parameters stable, a super strong adolescent who recovered every 30 minutes, several venous accesses were channeled and large vessels were repaired. blood vessels and small intestine.
For Taimí Cardoso Sánchez, mother of Henry Cristian, her heart has been beating faster five days ago. Receiving the call that would change the minute, the hour, the day has been, in her words, a bitter experience where her worries and torments are diminished by the care received.
I thank all the staff for their careful attention, they ask every moment how he feels, seeing him recover is a great satisfaction, I trust the doctors and nurses who have saved my son's life, expressed that mother from Camagüey.
Today Henry talks and smiles, he says that he placed the harpoon he made on a street lighting pole to take a photo and it shot itself.
It had never been fired! he says, at the same time assuring that he will never touch one again.
Henry's evolution is favorable, soon he will go to play, to study to realize his dreams, wherever he goes he will carry a scar that will remind him of a sad moment, but full of memories where brave hands put their knowledge, professionalism and love to give back the most valuable thing in the universe: life.
In the history of pediatric medicine it should be noted that in a leap year in Camagüey the heroes of Cuban health performed a true feat. (Text and photo : ACN )
