7-Year-Old Boy Survives Freak Accident After 3-Inch Nail Pierces Through Neck And Into His Brain Upon Falling While Playing
A 7-year-old boy in India survives a freak accident after falling while playing and having a 3-inch nail pierce his neck and get lodged into his brain.
According to local outlets
India Today
,
ETV Bharat
, and
The Hindustan Times
, on May 16, the unidentified 7-year-old boy, from the Balrampur district, was rushed to a private hospital before being transferred to King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow, India.
Reports say the child reportedly got the nail stuck in his body after he accidentally fell down while playing, landing on the iron nail. He subsequently landed on a 2.27-inch iron nail, which pierced through his neck up to his brain. At the hospital, the child underwent surgery to remove the nail from his brain.
The surgery lasted four hours, with doctors carefully avoiding damage to the brain and “sensitive nerves between the mouth and the brain.” According to the medical professional at KGMU, the iron nail that pierced his neck and went up to his brain, “barely missing a blood vessel.”
7-Year-Old Boy Has 3-Inch Nail Lodge Into Skull And Survives
According to several local news outlets reporting on the child’s freak accident, MRI scans show the nail extending from the lower part of the boy’s neck and jaw up to his head, just slightly extending into his skull. The scans also showed just how close the nail got to his brain matter. Doctors say if the nail had pierced a different part of his head or hit a blood vessel, things would be much different.
Dr. Sandip Tiwari told ETV Bharat:
“It was during the course of investigation that we found that the nail had gone from the neck to the brain, barely missing a blood vessel. We consulted the experts in NeuroSurgery and ENT Departments and then decided to conduct this complicated surgery.”
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Meanwhile, Professor
Samir Misra
, a senior faculty member at KGMU’s trauma surgery department, told The Hindustan Times that the complicated surgery, “lasted four hours,” so to avoid any fatality. Mirsa added:
“The nail had to be carefully removed while avoiding damage to the brain and sensitive nerves between the mouth and the brain.”
Fortunately, the surgery was successful and the child was later transferred to KGMU’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, where he continued his recovery. Per The Hindustan Times, the child remained there under supervision and was expected to be discharged once stable.
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