New Delhi: A 21-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh ’s Mathura district survived a rare combination of life-threatening injuries after her clothes became entangled in a tractor wheel, dragging her and leaving her with massive blood loss, a ruptured intestine and a torn diaphragm.
During the procedure, we repaired the torn diaphragm, repositioned the stomach and colon within the abdominal cavity, removed the damaged portion of the small intestine and reconnected it,” Dr Goel said. I am extremely grateful to the doctors for giving me a second chance at life,” said Bhawana, the survivor. A multidisciplinary trauma team led by Dr Arjun Goel, senior consultant and head of general and minimally invasive surgery, performed a nearly three-hour emergency operation. Any delay in surgery could have led to irreversible shock, multiple organ failure and death. “After the accident, I was in unbearable pain and was struggling to breathe.