2024-04-20 02:26:56
“Recently, a young child was brought to the pediatric emergency department after he fell while jogging, hit a nearby pot, and severely bit his tongue.
Unfortunately, freshly grown sharp teeth can be merciless to the tongue – its tip split, the tongue was split in half,” the Facebook account of the emergency department of Kaunas Clinics reads.
“The wound is not big – blood, swelling, a lot of completely understandable anxiety of relatives. At such moments, we especially feel the opportunities provided by our specialty to quickly solve complex tasks – we can put the child to sleep and sew up the wound ourselves.
There is no need to wait for the anesthesiologist to finish the operation and come from another department. And we don’t have to wait for an examination by an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, who is likely to be busy with other consultations at the time – an emergency medicine doctor has the necessary skills to help such a child here and now.
We always take into account the wishes of the relatives, we try to have the parents with the child even during the procedure, if it is safe.
We are glad that we quickly solved the problem of the little patient and he did not have to go to the hospital.
After being put to sleep, the child spent another hour in the observation ward of the emergency department, where he fully woke up. After assessing that he was feeling well, and seeing another smile on his face, we let him go home to rest and recover,” the doctors concluded the description of the successful case.
2024-04-20 02:26:56