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Manfredonia, September 11, 2020. Last night a true miracle was performed at the San Camillo de Lellis hospital, where a 48-year-old man was saved with an extremely delicate and urgent intervention. Indeed, splenectomy, or removal of the spleen, may be considered on the agenda in other structures, but not in Manfredonia where, as a basic hospital, emergencies do not come and are generally diverted to San Giovanni Rotondo or Foggia.
So what if a patient arrives for whom every minute is precious and a transfer could prove fatal? Sipontino, 48, came to the Manfredonia Emergency Department in severe pain and was diagnosed with an ultrasound with a ruptured spleen. Shortly after, the man lost consciousness due to a great loss of blood in the abdomen. Including the impossibility of transferring the patient to another location, the medical personnel on duty were immediately called to return to service at the San Camillo. As a basic structure, in fact, at night there is no anesthetist or equipment to perform the interventions.
Without delay, the operating room was installed in less than half an hour, a very short time even for a large structure and which was essential to save the life of such a serious patient.
The director of general surgery Salvatore Rucci, who by the way was already several kilometers from Manfredonia, left after having completed an operation performed for several hours, and Dr. Elvira Impagnatiello was very well; exceptional work carried out by doctors Sandra Troiano, Davide D’Antini and by the Transfusional with doctor Luigi Ciccone and the Raffaella Clemente technique.
The promptly performed intervention was successful and it was not even necessary to take the patient to resuscitation. The Covid route was also respected to minimize the risk of contagion. At a time when the health emergency is still high due to the pandemic, it is important to take into account that the transfer to another hospital also becomes risky because, according to the health protocol, it is mandatory to rub those who arrive and configure the Covid route . even if the patient is in serious condition.
What happened is yet another demonstration that “small” hospitals like the one in Manfredonia, which are in densely populated places, especially in summer, must function. The risk of being left without an adequate health center to manage emergencies, in addition to the routine, is dangerous, because overcrowding in other centers causes delays in treatments that, if postponed, can put the lives of patients at risk, especially now that Covid attends to make everything slower and more complicated.
Hospitals like San Camillo cannot be defunctional, both because it is very important to guarantee outpatient activities and hospitalizations without necessarily having to travel., but also because you can find yourself in urgent situations like last night where every minute becomes precious.
Maria Teresa Valente
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