Doctors from two medical institutions in the Primorsky Territory saved the hand of a boy who was attacked by dogs. The boy received a large cut, and his brachial artery was also damaged, the Max channel of the regional Ministry of Health reports. The attack took place in Rudnaya Bay. The boy was unable to escape from the angry animals and received a severe wound on his elbow. A man fishing nearby came running to the scream. He drove the dogs away, took the boy home and called an ambulance. The baby was taken to a hospital in the city of Dlangorsk. The situation was serious: in addition to the wound, the brachial artery, the main vessel supplying the arm, was damaged. The defect reached 7 centimeters. Without urgent surgery, the tissue will begin to die, which can lead to amputation. Surgeons provided first aid by cleaning the wound and applying a temporary shunt of the blood vessels to restore blood flow and transport. After that, the child was transferred to the Clinical Hospital No. 2 of Vladivostok by an air ambulance helicopter. There, local vascular surgeons replaced the temporary bypass with a permanent bypass and repaired the artery using a section of the patient's vein. "Our task was not only to save the organ, but also to ensure complete healing of the extensive defect. After several dressing changes, we implanted a fat flap in the skin from the patient's thigh. The flap took root," said Roman Kostiv, head of the hospital's trauma department. The boy faces a long recovery, but the most important thing has already been done - the doctors saved his hand.