This happened on the election day.It was scary to watch however the competent medical staffs of ICU handled the case with the utmost skills that it desired.Though the hospital lacks Maxilla-facial surgeon and specialized nurses the case was well managed.The hardworking Nurses of the Intensive Care Unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital cannot be underestimated.May be this why God has blessed them with the rapid healing hands.
It was in the night when this case was rushed into the ward with very poor ventilation to be salvage by the Awaiting Nurses.Client(Name withheld) was admitted as a head injury case as it looks in the image below after he had voted and out of Ecstasy rode his motorbike into trenches and sustained a severe degloved wound on the right temporal-mandibular ark.Client was well ventilated as his initial oxygenation saturation was poor(67%) and connected to the cardiac monitor for close monitoring and with a sterile conscience client was assessed and prepared for suturing.He was dressed and manged in the ward and guess what the next day he was conscious and was discharged home after 4 days of hospital stay.
Client rode the motorbike without crash helmet and we therefore wish to use this medium to appeal to the general public to cultivate the habit of the use of the crash helmet.
Kudos to ICU Nurses-TTH.
Yakubu H.Yakubu
Nurse.
