Tragic Death of 7-Year-Old Boy: Murderer Swallows Small Piece of “Stationery”, Doctors Still Can’t Save Him

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A cautionary tale: A 7-year-old boy died, and the murderer was found to be a “writing instrument” that he swallowed. He was rushed to the hospital, but the doctors were unable to save him.

After a 7-year-old girl in Bac Khanh Province, Vietnam accidentally swallowed a cigarette cap, she developed coughing, difficulty breathing and chest pains, suffered severe and irreversible brain injuries and died four days after treatment.

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The girl reportedly accidentally swallowed the cap while she was studying , causing it to enter her airway. The girl began coughing, having difficulty breathing and experiencing chest pains. Teachers rushed her to the school nurse’s office for first aid before transferring her to a local health center.

On the way to the เว็บพนันออนไลน์ UFABET สมัครง่าย โปรโมชั่นมากมาย hospital. The child stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated with continuous CPR. Upon arrival at the provincial hospital, the medical team continued resuscitation. But due to the brain injury and repeated seizures, he had to be transferred to the Central Children’s Hospital.

According to Dr. Nguyen Tan Hung, deputy head of emergency and toxicology at Central Children’s Hospital, the child arrived at the hospital in critical condition, was resuscitated with a ventilator, and given drugs to help increase the heart rate to maintain the heart rhythm and blood pressure. But remained in a coma and had seizures.

Doctors treated him by using a ventilator, maintaining blood flow. And treating cerebral edema, along with giving him sleeping pills and performing an endoscopy to pull out the object blocking his airway. The object that was pulled out was a black pen cap. Approximately 0.5 x 0.8 cm in size, which blocked more than 70% of his right airway.

Both sides of the child’s respiratory tract were swollen and there was a lot of phlegm in the trachea. Although the doctors tried their best to treat him, due to the prolonged time that his breathing and heart stopped beating, he suffered an irreversible brain injury and eventually the child died after 4 days of treatment.