A man had to live with his hand sewn onto his leg for a month before it was reattached to his wrist recently. The patient, called Zhou, lost his left hand in a work accident in the city of Xiangtan, China.
After being rushed to hospital the surgeons realised they could reattach his hand, however not immediately due to the damage the nerves and tendons in his arm. Zhou said of the accident: ‘My mind went blank at that moment and I just thought that I had lost one hand.’
The hand needed to be kept alive (by having blood run through it) for a month to allow the damage to the arm to heal. Therefore surgeons decided to attach it to Zhou’s leg. After a month it was reattached to his arm during a ten hour operation. Not only was the operation a success, but Zhou already has some movement back in his formerly-severed hand. Zhou will now require extensive physiotherapy to get as much movement as possible in the hand.
The hospital’s head of the hand microsurgery department, Tang Juyu, told People website: ‘In normal temperatures, a severed finger should resume blood supply within 10 hours. ‘The time is even shorter for a separated limb. ‘If it falls short of blood for long, the tissues dies and it would be impossible to get it back.’ A metro.co.uk extract.
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