Real-life story: Reconstruction of hand and dramatic recovery
It was the year 1991, when a 14-year-old boy fell while riding his bicycle, which broke his right forearm. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and admitted. A plaster cast was applied in the operation theatre under general anesthesia. However, the plaster turned out to be quite an ordeal and a nightmare which he soon realized. Some complications followed, which were discovered a few days later. Consequently, he was taken up for another round of surgery, where surgical cleaning of the wound was done because a condition called compartment syndrome had set in. The wound was debrided. Once the debridement or the cleaning of the wound was over, he started facing even more challenges, and further debridement or cleaning of the wound was done. In the sequence of events that unfolded, the median n...










