A patient died in intensive care unit when electricity went out in Andijan

“The traumatologist said that we need to recover the patient’s leg. The patient’s pulse pressure was stable, he was conscious, he said that he talked to his family members.

[…] The operation started around 21:00. The patient fell asleep under the influence of anesthesia. At that time, his leg was recovered, after that he laid down well for about 10 minutes. I did not like the patient's condition when he started to regain consciousness. Saturation, blood pressure was normal. Suddenly, in our opinion, there was a thrombosis, due to which the patient’s facial structure changed, blisters and bluish tints appeared on his body.

Suspecting thromboembolism, we immediately switched to intubation anesthesia, took the patient to the apparatus. 10 minutes after connecting to the device, the patient’s blood pressure dropped and the pupil dilated. We resuscitated for 25 minutes. All measures were taken, he was transferred to vasopressors, adrenaline, defibrillation, connected to oxygen. At 21:50, an irreversible process began and biological death was observed.

Our first guess is fat embolism. The second is thromboembolism. In order to prevent such situations, we will hold a conference, at the conference it was decided to put the protruding part of the leg back in its place.

The case was submitted to expertise. According to the results, a conclusion will be given. In fact, the electricity went out. But we used manual breathing apparatus. Since there were two lines, the power did not go off for a long time, not more than 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, we have a secondary generator. The first priority is the patient. The light bulb in the room can be turned on even when the light is off. It is true that power outages can affect our activities in some ways, but I do not consider this to be the cause of death. Because all the devices worked on a battery, the defibrillator also had power,” anesthesiologist Khotamjon Nazarov said.

The deceased was married and had two children.

In the resuscitation department, although there is a second back-up line for electricity, we were surprised that there was no generator in case that too could fail.

This is not the first unpleasant situation in the medical department of Kurgantepa district. In May of this year, we reported that a woman who underwent an operation for acute appendicitis died after surgery. At that time, the prosecutor’s office announced that they had started an investigation, but no information was provided on its outcome.

A forensic medical examination was appointed on the death of Shuhratbek Abdukahhorov. Kun.uz follows the development of events.