海外「肛門に刺さったけどジュースは飲まなきゃ！」

A man who worked at a construction site in Brazil fell from a five-meter-high scaffold and survived with an iron bar pierced vertically from near the anus to the chest. The man’s case was published this month in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, an online medical journal. British news media The Mirror reported.

[Picture] Even though the iron bar got stuck vertically, it came off the heart slightly and was safe

Anyway, I was lucky – news of a man (57, whose name was not disclosed) who was likely to hear such a voice was reported from Brazil.

The man fell from a five-meter-high scaffolding while working at a construction site and was rushed to Travaladore, a general hospital in southern Curitiba, after a bar of iron over 60 centimeters long pierced his anus.

If you look at the CT scan image released recently, you can see that the iron bar penetrates through the part of the liver and diaphragm between the vulva and the anus (the perineum).

The man was lucky that the iron bar slightly missed his heart, and when he arrived at the hospital, his heart rate, blood pressure and blood oxygen levels were all stable.

The doctor reportedly performed laparotomy and thoracotomy to check the condition of the injury, and succeeded in removing the iron bar safely despite difficult surgery. After the operation, the man received a blood transfusion while under surveillance in the intensive care unit, and two days later, he was able to walk and eat. In addition, he showed a remarkable recovery to the extent that he moved to a general ward three days after the operation, and was discharged 12 days after the accident.

In addition, a quarter of hospitalized patients die and 80% suffer from complications such as abscesses and sepsis, even if surgery is performed at the right time. Therefore, the doctor said about male patients, “It is very difficult to operate with iron bars piercing the perineum, abdominal cavity, and chest cavity, and there is a high probability of complications and mortality. This case is very rare,” he said, and was delighted with the success of the operation.

Incidentally, a case similar to this man occurred in India in March this year, when a man in the process of cleaning fell from a height of three meters and a bar of iron pierced his heart and lungs. However, the heart was moving, and when the doctor took four hours to remove the iron bar, he showed surprising resilience.