Primorye surgeons saved a child's hand after an attack by a pack of dogs.
A seven-centimeter injury to the brachial artery threatened the boy with the loss of his arm after an attack by a pack of dogs in Rodania Bay. The boy received a serious wound in the elbow area. A fisherman who was nearby came to his aid: he drove the animals, hid the victim in the house and called an ambulance.
First aid was provided by surgeons from the Dlangorsk Hospital. To preserve the blood supply to the arm until transport, they installed a temporary vascular shunt. The child was then taken by air ambulance to Vladivostok, to Regional Clinical Hospital No. 2. There, vascular surgeons replaced the temporary structure and reconstructed the damaged artery using a section of the child's own vein. After that, traumatologists had to close the extensive soft tissue damage.
Thanks to the work of several medical teams, the arm was saved. Now the boy has a long recovery ahead of him.