Police intervened in the case of a 3-year-old girl in Hanoi who had 9 nails nailed into her head, and urgently arrested Nguyen Van Huyen, the child’s mother’s lover – who committed the cruel act of driving 9 nails into her head. child’s head.
According to Huyen’s testimony, at 8:00 a.m. on January 17, Huyen asked but saw that child A did not answer, so she slapped child A many times and then took a pin to pin child A’s head. After that, Huyen took her to the babysitter’s house and then returned to her room to sleep.
Around 4:00 p.m. on the same day (January 17), the babysitter called Huyen to come pick up baby A. Huyen came to pick her up and saw that child A. had signs of nausea, His health was weak and could not stand, so he asked the babysitter to carry child A. back to the motel room.
When the child’s mother came home and saw her like that, she took her straight to the Emergency Department. Rescue – Thach That General Hospital. The baby came to the hospital in a state of coma and convulsions.
Thach That General Hospital performed a diagnostic scan on radiopaque images of the patient’s skull. The baby’s condition became critical, so on the morning of January 18, baby N.A. was transferred to Saint Paul General Hospital. p>
So why was it possible to nail 9 nail into the child’s head but cannot be detected from the outside?
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, former Head of Pediatrics Department (Bach Mai Hospital), hearing that nailing into the head seems impossible because it would cause Head pain is protected by a hard skull. However, in children, people often say that the child’s head is “soft” because the baby’s skull structure is developing, so there are suture lines on the skull.</p >
For children around 3 years old, most of the fontanelles have healed, but there are still lines in the middle and horizontal incisions around them, or roughly speaking, gaps covered by the scalp and hair that cannot be seen but can be felt by touch. .
The child’s skull is not completely closed and may have gaps. If you touch these gaps correctly, the nail will penetrate deeply. Moreover, if you poke these gaps correctly, the child will have less pain.
In the case of a 3-year-old child, Associate Professor Dung believes that the possibility of still having a fontanel is small but still entirely possible. In addition, there are joint incisions that can completely penetrate a nail.
“In reality, when we treat patients, the doctor must feel and check the skull opening to insert a needle through the fontanel lines to suction. The fluid in the brain comes out,” Associate Professor Dung said.
In addition, each person’s brain also has “dumb areas” which are areas of the brain that have no external manifestations. If poked, they do not even bleed abnormally. If the object penetrates without using strong force, it will be difficult to leave a mark.
In the case when a sharp foreign object touches the nerve lines, it can paralyze the victim and cause respiratory failure. circulation, causing the victim to die immediately if poked in these dangerous areas.
Currently, the 3-year-old patient is still being actively treated at Saint Paul Hospital in Hanoi, but his condition is still very serious. coma.
According to Associate Professor Dung, the important thing right now is for the doctors to focus on saving the baby. If the baby is saved, brain sequelae will definitely exist but need to be evaluated. Possible risks such as epilepsy, unsteady walking and slow development in children… need to be monitored when the baby is lucky to survive the critical situation.
As Dan Tri reported on the afternoon of the 17th /1 Thach That Hospital received a 3-year-old child hospitalized in a coma and convulsions.
This case is a girl named D.N.A. address in Canh Nau was admitted to the Emergency Department. The patient was brought in by his mother. Through investigating the medical history, the mother said that the child had not woken up since the afternoon, so she was taken to the hospital.
It is worth noting that after the doctors received the patient and placed the X-ray tube, they discovered the above X-ray film has contrast-enhanced images of the skull. During the examination, the doctors discovered that the baby’s right arm had been in a cast for 2 weeks.
Through preliminary diagnosis, patient A. was found to be in a coma with suspected meningitis. . The patient’s condition was very serious and the death rate was high.
After the patient was transferred to Saint Paul General Hospital, this unit conducted a CT scan and found that there were images like nails in the skull and brain organization.
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