In Kuzbass, doctors saved a woman with 27 fractures after a traffic accident

The Minister of Health of Kuzbass, Andrey Tarasov, said in Max that to help the patient, a team of specialists was assembled from the Kuzbass Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medical Care named after M. A. Podgorbunsky, the Kuzbass Clinical Cardiology Dispensary named after L. S. Barbarash, and the Kuzbass Regional Clinical Hospital named after S. V. Belyaev. This was reported by TASS.

According to Tarasov, after the traffic accident the woman was diagnosed with 27 skeletal fractures and a dissection, that is, a splitting, of the thoracic aorta. The head of the department clarified that the mortality rate for such a pathology is about 95%.

The deputy chief physician for surgical care at the hospital named after M. A. Podgorbunsky, Arkady Osintsev, whose words are cited by Tarasov, said that traumatologists stabilized the pelvis and chest. They also stopped the bleeding.

At that time, intensivists were supporting the patient's vital functions. Cardiac surgeons and vascular surgeons installed a stent graft — an endovascular device for restoring the wall of a damaged vessel without open chest surgery.

The device was urgently delivered from Moscow to Kemerovo. After the operations, the patient's condition was stabilized.

Doctors said that the woman faces a long rehabilitation. The team that saved the patient was formed from specialists from several Kuzbass hospitals.