The Minister of Health, Ogerta Manastirliu, has published on social networks the rare operation at the University Trauma Hospital that saved the life of a 55-year-old man with multiple injuries, caused after falling from a great height.
"Three interventions of a very high level of difficulty, in the brain, spine and limbs, were successfully performed by a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons, orthopedics and resuscitators at the University Trauma Hospital, saving the life of the 55-year-old patient". writes the minister.
Furthermore, the minister congratulates the doctors of the Trauma hospital for their professionalism.
"Congratulations to the University Trauma Hospital team, neurosurgeons, Dr. Fatos Olldashi, Dr. Geldon Fejzo, orthopedic doctors, Dr. Viktor Marku, Dr. Drini Bardhi, Anesthetist-Reanimator Dr. Rexhina Sturçe, Flutura Balla assistant anesthesiologist, Sokol Xhafaj and instrumentalist Elsa Agalliu", writes Manastirliu.
According to the doctor, Fejzo, the patient was presented to the Emergency Department with trauma to several parts of the body, to the head, spine, forearm, clavicle and pelvis. When he was in a coma, the patient was treated by the Neurosurgery team for cranial trauma, and then at a second moment, the multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons, orthopedists and resuscitators performed an intervention to fix the vertebral column, clavicle and forearm.