Vascular surgeons of the CRCH helped the figure skater to return to big-time sports
Thanks to the efforts of doctors at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital (Kazan), led by vascular surgeon Dmitry Osipov, she not only saved her leg, but was also able to return to big-time sports.
On July 9, 2019, 9-year-old figure skater Evelina was admitted to the emergency room . In training, while performing an element of figure skating, a tragic accident occurred, a skate with the blade of another athlete, with all its weight fell on the inner surface of her left thigh.
The wound turned out to be deadly: the superficial femoral artery, the main vessel feeding the leg, was completely severed. The femoral vein is crossed by 90%, muscles, tissues, and nerve are damaged. The girl was in a state of hemorrhagic shock.
She was admitted to the intensive care unit almost unconscious, pale, with no pulsation in the vessels of the injured limb. The doctors started a plasma transfusion and tried to examine the wound, but when the bandage was removed, massive arterial bleeding occurred. A tight tampon was applied, after which the doctors called Dmitry Osipov, a vascular surgeon from the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, for help. The girl received a blood transfusion to stabilize her condition.