Source – A 43-year-old man in India was wheeled into a hospital with a knife lodged in the back of the neck after he was attacked by someone on a scooter, according to a report.
Venkata Ram Prasad, 43, was heading home on his bicycle in the town of Anantapur on Sept. 14 when the attacker stabbed him and sped away, the Times of India reported.
When police arrived, he was lying in a pool of blood and rushed to Columbia Asia Hospital in Hebbal with the knife still lodged in his nape.
A CT scan revealed that the knife had pierced his spinal cord, making it difficult to administer anesthesia because he would have had to be turned over.
“But we went ahead with anesthesia in the position he came in,” said Dr. Prasanna Kumar.
Once anesthesia was administered, doctors had to position him for surgery, which required them to manipulate his neck.
“We made sure the surgery was done without any movement of the neck and without any upper body movement,” said Dr. Avinash K M, a consulting neurosurgeon.
“He had also suffered paralysis of the left hand,” he added.
Prasad has recovered and is now back on his feet, doctors said.
“It’s good the knife was not removed at the local hospital as he wouldn’t have survived the excessive bleeding,” said Dr. Ananth Rao, unit head at the hospital.
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