Russia-Ukraine War
On the Israel-Ukraine line: "Remote control" surgery saved the Ukrainian officer's arm
Prof. Eidelman of Rambam Hospital could not remain indifferent to the situation in Ukraine, and to the cries for help from his medical acquaintances, who remained there to treat the wounded on the battlefield.
Therefore, when a friend from Kiev called him for an urgent consultation about an officer who was badly injured in the arm, he was quick to explain what he should do.
With joint efforts, the surgery was successful
Yoav Itiel
19/03/2022
Saturday, March 19, 2022, 8:00 p.m.
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In the video: A Ukrainian officer injured his hand in battle, an Israeli doctor assisted him remotely (Credit: ISIDA Clinic)
"The phone rang in the middle of the night," recalls Prof. Mark Eidelman, director of pediatric orthopedics at Ruth Children's Hospital in Rambam, what happened earlier this week. .
"He needed advice on how to handle the officer who came for emergency surgery after he was seriously injured by a missile."
Rambam, the largest hospital in the north, has extensive experience in treating trauma injuries as a result of war, accidents and complex domestic injuries. The accumulated knowledge is shared by hospital doctors with many factors around the world as a matter of routine. R. Valentin Rosinsky, in Kiev, when Ukrainian patients were operated on together.
The connection between the two was maintained and in a time of need, Dr. Rosinsky turned to an urgent consultation: "The blood vessels, tissues and muscles as much as possible to prevent the loss of the hand and possibly even life-threatening injuries."
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"Can not sleep peacefully in the face of my acquaintances, doctors crying out for help."
Prof. Eidelman (Photo: Official website, Rambam Medical Campus)
The surgery in question is a complex event, but one that has been done in advanced operating rooms successfully.
The problem is that now, the same wounded man was lying in an operating room which is in a combat zone.
The stock of medical equipment, manpower and surgical options available to the Ukrainian staff is limited.
"My heart is torn from the situation," says Prof. Eidelman, "these days I can not sleep peacefully in the face of the dead, the wounded and the refugees. "Their doctors, who work in unconditional conditions and treat very serious combat injuries and shout for equipment. Doctors there are bombed, working around the clock and some of them have parents who have become refugees or women and children who left Ukraine and they stayed there to operate and treat."
"At that moment he had to act quickly and creatively," explains Prof. Eidelman.
The military hospital outside Kiev has been operating since the war began in Ukraine 24/7 and provides treatment for various injuries, most of them life-saving.
About a week ago, the hospital received a portion of a shipment valued at hundreds of thousands of shekels, and it contains essential medical equipment, medicines, anesthetics, disinfectants and more.
The second part of the shipment makes its way from Israel and the United States, via Poland, with the assistance initiated by Prof. Eidelman, with the help of friends in Israel and the United States, to help his friend in Ukraine.
Ironically, some of the equipment sent to Ukraine, will be used for the first time ever, during the treatment of the wounded of the hospital near Kyiv.
"Israelis seem to understand better than anyone what is needed and how to help."
Dr. Rosinsky (Photo: Official Website, courtesy of ISIDA Clinic)
Dr. Rosinsky, whose grandfather is Jewish and has even visited Israel in the past, routinely serves as director of the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics and the Department of Trauma Medicine at Isida Hospital (ISIDA Clinic). "I do not know what we would have done without this equipment. In general, it seems that Israelis understand better than anyone what is needed and how to help. Unfortunately, you know very well what it is like to live in a state of war," said Dr. Rosinsky.
About the operation that took place a few days ago, Dr. Rozinski says that the solution proposed by Prof. Eidelman was that it was possible to save the wounded man's arm.
"The situation here is not simple and we are treating various injuries with varying degrees of severity. I hope this situation will end soon and in the meantime we need all the help we can get."
In the documentation obtained at Rambam Hospital, the officer was seen moving his fingers. The operation was successful.
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