{"id":6633,"date":"2022-09-06T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2022-09-06T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:53:21","slug":"severed-hand-successfully-replanted-at-tawam-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/life\/2022\/09\/06\/news\/6633\/","title":{"rendered":"Severed hand successfully replanted at Tawam Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6634\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/severel_hands-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plastic and reconstructive surgery team at UAE\u2019s Tawam Hospital successfully reattaches a man\u2019s hand that was severed in an industrial accident. (WAM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DUBAI, Broadcasting News Corporation : A surgery team at UAE\u2019s Tawam Hospital have successfully reattached a man\u2019s hand that was severed in an industrial accident, enabling him to move his fingers within a week.<br \/>\nA part of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Co., Tawam\u2019s Hospital plastic and reconstructive surgery team, carried out the nine-hour emergency hand replantation operation successfully, Emirates News Agency reported on Tuesday. The unidentified man\u2019s arm was injured during an industrial accident. WAM said the operating team restored blood circulation in the limb within two hours using a microsurgery technique. He was able to move his fingers within a week of the surgery. Speaking about the surgery, Dr. Ammar Al-Dhamin, Tawam Hospital\u2019s Plastic, Reconstructive and Microsurgery Consultant said replantation surgeries can be \u201ccomplex and highly technical.\u201d The patient was presented to the hospital with a hand severed from his wrist. \u201cElapsed time is highly crucial. As one of the most important factors to a successful replantation is less than six hours in the structures contain muscles,\u201d said Al-Dhamin. \u201cWe restored blood circulation within two hours, and the patient started moving his fingers within a week.\u201d The patient is expected to need extensive physiotherapy in the future, but his \u201crecovery so far has been fantastic,\u201d according to Al-Dhamin. Replantation surgeries involve the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as the hand, fingers, or toes), with an average survival rate of the replanted parts being 80 percent. The surgery team included Emirati surgeons Dr. Latifa Abdulla Al-Dhaheri, Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Hamad Ahmed Al-Dhaheri, Medical Resident and Dr. Mohammed Nadir Sekkal, Specialist Physician, from the orthopedic team. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, Broadcasting News Corporation : A surgery team at UAE\u2019s Tawam Hospital have successfully reattached a man\u2019s hand that was severed in an industrial accident, enabling him to move his fingers within a week. A part of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Co., Tawam\u2019s Hospital plastic and reconstructive surgery team, carried out the nine-hour emergency &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}