Hyderabad: A team of surgeons from Yashoda Hospitals, Somajiguda replant a severed hand to a patient recently. Akhilesh Kumar (18), was brought to the hospital about 10 hours after the accident.
According to a press note, a team comprising of Dr Sasikanth Maddu (Senior Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon), Dr Devender Singh (Senior Vascular Surgeon), Dr Sunil Dachepalli (Orthopedic & joint replacement Surgeon), Dr K Sashikiran (General Physician) and Dr Vasudev (Anaesthetist) replanted the hand of Akhilesh.
Kumar works in a rubber factory in Choutuppal; while working with a rubber cutting machine he accidentally cut off his hand up to the wrist completely. The surgeons performed Plastic reconstructive & Micro-vascular surgeries to restore it.
The surgery took eight hours. Within 48 hours after that patient has begun moving fingers of that hand.