A 63-year-old Florida man sneezed too hard and caused some parts of his intestines to come out from his surgical site while eating at a nearby restaurant with his wife in the Dining room, According to the Independent.
In May 2024, an American Medical Case Reports journal in a case study detailed that the person had previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer and was hospitalized just two weeks before. After 15 days dinerhe had a cystectomy, which is an operation of removing the bladder that led to an open abdominal wound.
The patient underwent a “robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy nine years ago” for his prostrate cancer treatment as well as various treatments for subsequent recurrences of his cancer. During treatment of disease recurring health complications occurred too.
On the morning of this sneezing spree (incident) doctors ruled out any possibilities of surgical site being exposed by confirming normal healing and fixing wide staples keeping it down. The operative scar can be erased (deleted).
They both felt relieved and accomplished so they decided to have breakfast there to celebrate their triumphs.
Researchers said – At breakfast, “the man sneezed forcefully then coughed.” He suddenly felt warmth and pain in his abdomen when he checked, there were several concentric circles of pink intestine protruding from a recent incision. Protuberate.
Later he stated that he did not know what to do next so he put on his shirt over the intestines sticking out. He first chose to drive himself to hospital however after fear grew inside him that repositioning could be detrimental to intestines, his wife requested for an ambulance”.
Before calling for an ambulance, the man panicked and covered protruded lump with his shirt.
Painkillers were given by paramedics who also covered the wounded areas with pads before rushing him to nearby hospital due to severe injuries sustained by this victim because they measured well within normal range at hospital
When called four minutes later after receiving directions to attend a “Exteriorized intestine tear ,” ALS ambulance pulled up at the restaurant. After removing the shirt which was soaked in fluid, paramedics found a 3-inch (7.6 cm) vertical gash with “a large amount of intestine” and just minor bleeding.
The three urologists replaced this extra peritoneal part of his small intestines back inside his abdomen. They examined the entire length of the small intestine and found no evidence of injury,” it added.
“While wound dehiscence is a known complication, this case is important due to lack of adequate representation on evisceration through scar site after cystectomy in medical literature.” This article ends by saying.
This case is important because it fills an existing literature gap on dehiscence (wound breakdown).
