Summary:
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (NewsVoir) • The woman, who delivered a baby 3 months ago, had developed a cardiac arrest and sustained anoxic brain injury • Team of doctors and paramedics from Chennai organized the ‘aero-medical evacuation’, with full medical support, in flight and during transit through airports.HAMSA Spine & Brain Rehabilitation Centre, a unit of Kauvery Hospital Chennai, is now providing comprehensive rehabilitation, and treatment, for a 36-year-aged woman with brain injury.
The patient had recently delivered a baby, and had suffered a cardiac arrest causing anoxic brain injury (injury to the brain from a period of interruption in blood flow and the consequent deprival of oxygen).
She currently breathes through a tube introduced through a tracheostomy (a surgical procedure to establish access to the airway, by means of an incision made on the trachea, the windpipe on the front of neck,for delivery of oxygen), and needs 2 liters oxygen per minute.
She is able to recognize faces only, and is unable to speak or move.
A serious Brain Injury after Cardiac arrest can leave a patient severely disabled.
After the immediate and initial stabilization, rehabilitation is an essential and extended phase of care which requires the expertise and the infrastructure to meet the specific needs of the person.