Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have saved a man who was stabbed in the heart by two strangers for an unclear reason. N.H.N., 41, who resides in District 7, was rescued thanks to the efforts of medical practitioners at the Saigon General Hospital, located in District 1. According to initial information, N. was riding his motorbike along Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street in District 1 on Sunday night when he was approached by two men, who claimed that N.’s vehicle had hit theirs. The strangers than assaulted N. before stabbing his heart with a knife. Following an emergency call from local residents, an ambulance brought the victim to the Saigon General Hospital. The patient suffered multiple scratches across his body and a bleeding wound on his chest. Results of a CT scan later showed that there was a two-centimeter deep cut in the left ventricle, causing bleeding and acute cardiac compression. The medical team at the Saigon General Hospital decided to send an inter-hospital red alert to the 115 People’s Hospital, whose cardiac doctors and nurses were then mobilized to assist the effort. A surgery was carried out at 9:00 pm and ended at 10:00 pm on the same night. The patient has regained consciousness and his overall health condition has stabilized. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest news about Vietnam!
Viscera of a 25-year-old brain-dead man saved the lives of four people suffering from life-threatening diseases, said Dr. Nguyen Tien Quyet, director of the Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi on May 9. On the night of May 8, thanks to the donation of viscera of a brain-dead man, the hospital carried out heart, liver and kidney transplant surgeries on a 23-year-old man from the northern province of Ha Nam, a 64-year-old man in Hanoi and two men below 30 years of age in Hanoi. All recipients were at the last stages of their disease. In addition, corneas of the dead…... [read more]
Doctors of the General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc District yesterday saved a 23 year old man who was stabbed in heart. The man was hospitalized when half-conscious with pale skin and shocked because of bleeding too much. Realizing that he was in critical condition doctors decided to perform a cardiotomy to rescue the patient. Surgeons then drained 600 liters of blood occupying both his pleura and pericardium and sutured the wounds for the patient. After the surgery, his condition was stable; accordingly he will stop putting on ventilator and it is expected to discharge from the…... [read more]
The 27 year old man hailing from the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong underwent heart transplant surgegy from a donated heart of a 18 year old girl.
Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Cardiac Surgery Dr. Nguyen Thai An said that during the surgegy, pericardial effusion happened because the recipient’s heart chamber is large while the donor’s heart is small.
Yet, surgeons had treated this problem and the man was in good condition.
At present, the man can eat and walk like healthy people. Yesterday, he was discharged. Dr. Thai An warned him…... [read more]
Vietnamese fishermen have saved a U.S. national found adrift off the coast of south-central Quang Ngai Province, after the man had reportedly been lost at sea for over a month. The victim, 67-year-old Rimas Meleshyus, was brought to shore at 3:50 pm on Sunday after having spent 17 days aboard the boat that had saved his life. He arrived at a border guard post in the central city of Da Nang on Sunday to the roaring applause of locals, who had been eager to see the adventurous man they could not believe was traveling the world by himself in his…... [read more]
A 21-year-old man in north central Vietnam has been living with pain for almost 20 years because his heart was damaged in a buffalo attack. The man, only identified as Vu Dinh L., from Thanh Hoa Province around 200 kilometers from Hanoi, was butted in his chest by a buffalo when he was two years old. But he only received a surgery at Vietnam National Institute of Cardiology in Hanoi on December 7 after a recent checkup revealed his heart had swollen three times bigger than normal. X-ray photos showed the man's heart was covered with a blood clot mass…... [read more]
