{"id":5027,"date":"2024-11-18T00:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/12-year-old-boys-arm-saved-after-marathon-surgery-in-abu-dhabi\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T00:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:31:56","slug":"12-year-old-boys-arm-saved-after-marathon-surgery-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/12-year-old-boys-arm-saved-after-marathon-surgery-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old boy\u2019s arm saved after marathon surgery in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The incident occurred in December 2023 when the young patient sustained an upper arm injury due to the accident, which left his arm attached only by a small piece of skin and muscle. The boy arrived at SKMC by air ambulance just after midnight, where he was received by a team led by Dr Ken Kontio, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, and his colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Surgery commenced just an hour later with Dr Kontio fixing the open humerus fracture, which had left a 15cm-long wound in the upper arm. During the procedure, it was found that the radial nerve was severed, the brachial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/uae\/health\/12-year-old-boys-arm-saved-after-marathon-surgery-in-abu-dhabi-1.104457588\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred in December 2023 when the young patient sustained an upper arm injury due to the accident, which left his arm attached only by a small piece of skin and muscle. The boy arrived at SKMC by air ambulance just after midnight, where he was received by a team led by Dr Ken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-hospitality-en","category-health-and-hospitality-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}