Doctors save man from severe lung injury

10:04, 06/04/2016

(ĐN)- Dong Nai General Hospital's doctors have successfully saved a patient whose lung was penetrated by a 15-cm knife blade in a surgery.

 

(ĐN)- Dong Nai General Hospital’s doctors have successfully saved a patient whose lung was penetrated by a 15-cm knife blade in a surgery.

Earlier, on February 24, the man named Ngyen Van On, residing in Nhon Trach district, was brought to the hospital in an unconscious and blood loss situation after his chest was pierced by knife with stab penetrated his left lung, which can threaten to his life.

Doctors diagnosed his health condition and gave him an emergency operation. They successfully removed the knife blade from the patient’s chest and sutured his lung wound.

The patient’s condition improved and recovered.

Reported by N.T