Plastic surgeons at AIIMS Mangalagiri have achieved a landmark milestone in advanced trauma care by successfully performing a highly complex trans-humeral (mid-arm) replantation surgery to reattach a completely amputated arm. The rare microsurgical procedure, carried out on a 25-year-old industrial worker, marks the first surgery of its kind in Andhra Pradesh and highlights the growing capabilities of specialised reconstructive surgery in India. The patient, a mill machine load operator from Jharkhand working with a road construction company, sustained a catastrophic crush injury when his left arm was caught in a tar machine near Hanuman Junction, close to Vijayawada, on February 22.
He was transported to the Emergency Department at AIIMS Mangalagiri within an hour of the accident, with the severed limb carefully preserved and brought alongside him. Doctors immediately assessed the…
