West Bengal: Doctors save toddler’s life after scissors pierce brain | Kolkata News – Times of India
Shiekh Mikhail was playing in his house in Howrah’s Narendrapur, Munshirhat, on Friday night when the pair of scissors accidentally pierced into his brain around the eye. He was alone in the room and his parents were not sure how it happened.
On hearing his scream, elders rushed in and found him writhing in pain. The boy was rushed to the nearby Jagatballavpur Rural Hospital. “The doctors told us to take him to IPGMER and nowhere else as his condition was precarious. We were extremely worried and tensed as we often keep hearing of unavailability of beds at SSKM Hospital,” said the boy’s grandfather, Raja Sheikh.
The boy reached SSKM’s emergency around 9.30pm. Investigations including CT scan revealed that the pointed end of the scissors had penetrated into the child’s brain, causing bleeding inside. It had caused severe damage to the dura, the outer layer of tissues that covers and protects the brain and the spinal cord.
“We conducted a craniotomy that involves opening of the boy’s skull to prevent further damage. In a surgery that lasted about two and half hours we removed the object. The extremely challenging anaesthesia was done efficiently by the anaesthesia team headed by Aripta Laha,” said professor Subhasis Ghosh, head of neurosurgery who had done the surgery along with neurosurgeon, Subhamitra Choudhury.
Apart from the anaesthesia doctors, Rashmita Sengupta, Tirthankar Ghosh and Kausik Biswas, the medical team also roped in Sandip Samaddar, associate professor in the ophthalmology department. So far the boy’s vision is found alright. Further vision assessment will be done in the next few days.
