In a story that echo the happeningsof 2013 , another Taiwanese factory worker has had their hand amputated – and stitched back onto their stage to save the disembodied extremity from dying . After leaving the hand in place for a calendar month , the branch from which it was removed had successfully healed enough to allow the physician to reattach it .
After getting his left hand caught in a spinning blade in the factory in whichhe was working , the patient role – only identified as Zhou – was rushed to a local hospital in China ’s Hunan province where he was initially differentiate that he ’d lose the bridge player . He was then transferred to Xiangya Hospital in the state ’s capital , which had far more experience in “ replantation ” surgery , with the same team also perform the noted 2013 surgery .
China man recovers severed hand after it was preserve by being graft to his leghttp://t.co/C5woN9EnSHpic.twitter.com/Xlfkm4cPso
— People ’s Daily , China ( @PDChina)July 17 , 2015
Defined asthe “ reattachment of the amputated limb using the neurovascular and musculoskeletal structures,”the firstsuccessful replantation surgical operation go on in Japan in 1965 , involving reattachment of a human pollex after it was severed by a steel cut motorcar . Since then , fingers , toes , weapon , ramification , ear and even member have all been replanted back onto their several locations .
According tothe American Society for Surgery of the Hand , replantation should normally follow three step . The first is that the damaged tissue paper should be carefully bump off , followed by shortening the ends of the bones , but only in the severed branch and not in the stump . This is a safety criterion in font replantation is n’t successful and the stump has to be reconstructed . in conclusion , the tendons , arteria , nerves and veins should be repaired , if necessary using grafts .
Because of the severe damage done to both the arm and helping hand , and the meter it would take for them to recover , it was decided that the best pick was to rob the paw up to a blood supply from another part of the body . “ In normal temperature , a severed finger should resume blood supplying within 10 hours . The clip is even shortsighted for a separated limb , ” Dr. Tang Juyu , chief of hand microsurgery at Xiangya Hospital , toldPeople ’s Daily . “ If it falls unforesightful of blood for long , the tissues die and it would be impossible to get it back . ”
Since the hand has been reattached during an epic 10 - hr surgery , Zhou has designate slender movement in his fingers , though apparently he still demand much longer rehabilitation to get anything near full occasion back in the handwriting .
