AMRITSAR: In a rare and exemplary surgical feat, a team of young doctors of Guru Nanak Dev Hospital connected with Government Medical College, saved the life of a 17yearold boy having a stab wound of the hear.
Jatinder Singh, lent of the local Sunder Nagar and a vegetable vendor, was stabbed through his heart in the morning of September 11, while he was going to the Sabzi Mandi to pur chase vegetables. When someone. Tried to snatch his money the boy raised a hue and cry and he was stabbed. He was rushed to the hospital in a state of shock and was admitted to the surgical emergency department with a stab wound on the left side of the chest. Immediately, blood transfusions and necessary treatment were given. ‘The services of cardiothoracic surgeons were also requisitioned at once, a team of doctors from: the second surgical unit and the Cardiothoracic Surgery opened the abdomen and the chest cavities. The repair of the heart wounds done on the beating heart by Dr Kuldeep Singh Sidhu, in charge of the Cardiothoracic Surgery. The heart stopped twice but ‘was revived during the operation, According to hospital sources, is very difficult to undertake repair on a beating heart, especially without a heart lung machine, by which the heart can be stopped and repair done, ‘There are very few instances in medical literature off patients surviving injuries across the chamber of the heart. Besides Dr K.S. Sidhu, the other members of the team were Dr Amrik Singh Bhatia and Dr Bholla Singh Sidhu, both of the Department of Surgery, Dr Swaran Kaur Gulati, Dr Onkar Singh, Dr Pawan Verma all an esthetes is and Dr Baljit Singh Johal, a surgeon.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 23, 1994
