24-year-old Gaurav was in a hurry to reach his office. He left his home at 8.30 in the morning and in next 15 mins. he met with an accident. On his way to office, his vehicle slid due to excessive oil spread on road and unfortunately, Gaurav immediately fell on the right side of his body, on the road. He desperately tried to get up but he was unable to do so. The on-lookers who witnessed this accident immediately came to Gaurav’s rescue and helped him reach nearby hospital. Doctors at the hospital observed an internal bleeding in Gaurav’s body that had resulted in distension in his belly. Dr. Sanjay Date instantly advised that Gaurav should be moved to Sahyadri Hospitals, Deccan for further treatment.
At Sahyadri Hospitals, Gaurav’s case was handed over to the Liver Experts, Dr Bipin Vibhute & Dr Prashantha Rao. Examining the critical condition of Gaurav, both the doctors advised for immediate surgery. During the accident, as Gaurav had fallen on right side of his body, his liver and kidney was severely damaged. Doctors discovered that, it was due to this damage that there was heavy internal bleeding from the blood vessels above the liver, which are connected to the heart, and from the blood vessels below the liver, which are connected to legs. As a consequence, massive blood got collected in the abdomen. Doctors performed a two-hour-surgery to repair the blood vessels connected to heart and legs.
As a result of this successful surgery, bleeding could be stopped, but Gaurav was still experiencing other medical difficulties. After only a few hours of surgery, the bleeding recurred; doctors reported that it was due to the malfunctioning of his liver. After deep study, doctors found out that because of the heavy damage to his liver, the veins inside the liver were also damaged. Doctors began another complicated surgery at around 2 in the morning, where in they removed the damaged part of the liver from Gaurav’s body, and could temporarily stop the bleeding through stitches.
The internal bleeding recurred when Gaurav was in the ICU. But, this time the internal bleeding was less as compared to previous times. However, the doctor observed that bleeding couldn’t be completely stopped even after two surgeries. Hence, Doctor decided to perform third surgery on Gaurav. This time in order to completely stop bleeding and possibility of gangrene, doctors removed approximately 30 to 40 % of damaged part of Gaurav’s liver, and the bleeding could be stopped completely.
During these 3 surgeries, Sahyadris’ doctors had to administer 134 units of blood to Gaurav. Supply of such a huge requirement of blood could be made possible through Sahyadri’s well-organized blood bank.
The Anaesthetists’ team including Dr. Vikas Karne & Dr. Manish Pathak played a very important role in this surgery. The Team coordinator Rahul Tambe ensured that all the equipment required to perform these surgeries were ready & available everytime.
While talking about this complicated surgery Dr. Bipin Vibhute said, “Liver is a gift bestowed by nature to human beings. It is the only part of human body that can regenerate itself. Even after removing 30 - 40 % of the liver its functioning potentiality remains the same. Post these surgeries, Gaurav’s liver is now functioning normally.
He further added that, “During the third and last surgery on Gaurav, we realized that Gaurav has only one kidney in his body, on the right side and that too was badly damaged. Consequently, Gaurav’s body will take longer period to recover. Now, we are specially taking care that no more complications arise in Gaurav’s body.