Krasnoyarsk doctors saved a 70-year-old man with serious burns / Incidents of Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.Ru

Doctors from the Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Hospital saved a 70-year-old man with II-III degree burns on 40% of his body surface.

The patient was taken to intensive care on September 2 by air ambulance from a village in the Sharypovsky district in serious condition, on the verge of life and death. He received thermal burns to his torso, upper and lower extremities in a fire on August 31 in his wooden house. The cause of the incident, according to the victim, was his own carelessness:

“It became cold at home, my friends brought me an old, old Soviet heater and said: “Genka, you need to change the wiring, it’s completely old.” – Well, I – then, then… As a result, the wiring shorted, the curtain caught fire, I jumped up, and it fell on me… Then I remember almost nothing, only that it was on fire, and that I pulled the heater plug out of the socket and poured water on myself. I don’t remember how they took me. Came to consciousness in intensive care. The burns were severe, the pain was such that you wouldn’t wish it on your enemy.”

The man was diagnosed with“burn toxemia” is the second stage of burn disease, in which the body is poisoned due to toxic breakdown products of dead cells and protein entering the blood, as well as bacterial toxins, and purulent inflammation develops at the burn sites.

Considering the advanced age of the patient and the severity of the burn injury, doctors doubted the optimistic outcome. Gennady Alexandrovich I had to undergo three operations to restore the skin, under general anesthesia.

“With such an area of ​​burns, older patients rarely survive, and ours also had about 18% deep burns. It was impossible to do without operations – if the areas of the body deeply damaged by fire are not closed, the body itself will not be able to completely restore them, and then the person dies from so-called burn exhaustion. Probably, about 85% of older people die after such injuries,” says Ivan Vladimirov, a surgeon at the burn department. “And surviving a month in intensive care with such an injury is physically and psychologically difficult. There are different smells, constant light and sound of devices – this in itself can negatively affect psychological well-being. In total, the patient has been in the hospital for more than 50 days. He’s a great guy, a positive person, he thinks sensibly, it’s clear that he was “made” in the Soviet Union. And I am very glad that we finally transferred him alive from the intensive care unit to the surgical unit. This is very cool! The tests are good, they resemble those of a young man, no older than 40 years old. The prognosis is good.”

The victim himself, with tears in his eyes, thanked the doctors for their professionalism and good attitude: “Of course, thank you very much to everyone! But I never set foot here again. Actually, everything is healing quickly for me. Now my hands are almost healed, only the burns on my back still bother me.”