A 'lucky' man in India has survived after being impaled in the neck by a 5ft iron spike.
An Indian man was raced to hospital after being impaled in the neck by a 5ft iron spike.
Karthikeyan accidentally slipped and fell from the first floor of his home in the city of Tiruchirappalli, in the southern Tamil Nadu state.According to local reports, the patient was fully conscious as his family rushed him to a nearby hospital where he underwent a three-hour surgery.Dr Mohamed Mansoor said: ‘After initial stabilisation of the patient, a plan was chartered out to remove the iron rod by involving a team of specialists.
‘We were not able to do any sort of imaging or x-ray of the wound as it would have created an artifact .Doctors miraculously saved his life ‘So only a bedside ultrasound was done to ensure no major vascular injury. The rod was then shortened on either side with the help of maintenance engineers in the hospital.
‘Shorting of the rod was the only option available to ensure safe mobilisation of the patient as the rod would make it difficult to enable us to subject him to any form of scanning or interventions.’Dr Mansoor stressed this was a ‘challenging’ surgery as the neck is where the windpipe, food pipe and the carotid artery are.
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