Nizhnekamsk trauma surgeons saved a patient from amputation of a finger
On September 25, Nizhnekamsk resident Mikhail Kostin was urgently taken to the hospital – as a result of an injury at the workplace, the man damaged three fingers on his right hand. On the index finger, the nail phalanx was stayed on only a vein, artery, and a tiny piece of skin. There was an open comminuted fracture with tendon injuires on the middle finger, and there was a closed fracture on the ring finger.
The ambulance took 24-year-old Mikhail to the hospital immediately, but there was still an issue of amputation – necrosis could begin on the index finger, which would give complications to the kidneys and liver. The patient asked to save the index finger, and the traumatologist-orthopedist of the Trauma Department of the Nizhnekamsk Central Republican Multifunctional Hospital Anvar Tokhtaev and Bulat Satdarov managed to do this.
The surgical operation under local anesthesia lasted about two hours.