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Last Sunday (December 21, 2025) volition everlastingly stay similar nary different for Manoop. B, a young cardiothoracic surgeon astatine Kottayam Government Medical College Hospital (MCH). For it would beryllium the time – night, really – that helium pulled a young mishap unfortunate from the brink of death, virtually with his bare hands.
That adrenaline unreserved is thing helium tin inactive re-live, says Manoop, arsenic helium narrates however helium came to beryllium the saviour of the Kollam native, Linu.
Dr. Manoop was connected his mode from Kochi to Kottayam, erstwhile astatine Udayamperoor, helium saw 2 mangled two-wheelers connected the road. It was astir 8.30 p.m. He stopped the car and got retired to cheque what had happened.
“I saw 3 radical lying connected the ground, critically injured. Two of them, though they had superior injuries, were conscious. But the 3rd idiosyncratic (Linu) who had his helmet on, was lying successful a acheronian country and helium was perfectly still,” says Dr. Manoop
“It is precise important successful specified mishap emergencies that we stabilise the cervix of the injured. I tried to region his helmet but I needed an adept hand, erstwhile similar god-send, the doc mates – Thomas Peter and his wife, Dideeya Thomas, who had besides stopped connected the mode noticing the mishap tract – came in. With 1 of them stabilising the cervix of the victim, I was capable to region his helmet,” helium says.
Airway obstructed
Linu had sustained had terrible maxillofacial injury, and helium was gasping for enactment due to the fact that the mangled facial bones and teeth and the humor aspirated to the lungs had obstructed the airway. They tried the caput tilt, a superior airway rescue manoeuvre, but successful vain.
“His breathing became shallow and helium was connected the brink of respiratory arrest. I did not person overmuch time, truthful I rapidly explained to the radical gathered astir and the constabulary that I needed to instantly bash a surgical process and that they had to help. I asked for a razor leaf and insubstantial straws,” the doc says.
A three-inch incision was made connected the cervix done which a straw was inserted to make an airway. But the insubstantial straws turned useless arsenic it was soaking up the blood. They past utilized a tiny integrative straw, which instantly improved his breathing. All this was done successful the flashlight of mobile phones,” says Dr. Manoop.
When the ambulances arrived, Dr. Manoop chose to travel the unfortunate since contempt the opening created by the straw, rescue breaths had to beryllium fixed continuously done the tube. The unfortunate was rushed to Wellcare Hospital astatine Vyttila, wherever the exigency doc connected work took over.
“A cricothyroidotomy is not a process that is usually done similar this successful the open, but possibly successful a warfare zone. To beryllium frank, I was petrified. Because the patient’s beingness was hanging by a thread and if helium went into respiratory apprehension portion I was doing the procedure, the radical gathered astir could crook connected me. It was conscionable the thought that a young beingness was successful my hands and I could not springiness up connected him that urged maine on,” says Dr. Manoop.
Dr. Manoop says it was teamwork and the fantabulous enactment fixed by the police, section radical and the ambulance personnel, Althaf and Aneez, that made the melodramatic rescue possible.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) went connected grounds to congratulate the young doctors. “Their beingness of caput and the committedness to prevention lives would stay an inspiration for each young doctors successful the making,” it said.
