KOCHI: Twenty-two-year-old Golu Rambjan, a migrant labourer who underwent surgery at the Little Flower Hospital at Angamaly for the removal of a nail that pierced his heart, has overcome the critical situation and is recovering. The emergency surgery was led by cardiothoracic surgeons of the Little Flower Hospital Dr A K Rafeek, Dr P N Nitish, Dr Tushar Ravi and Dr M T Ajith. Rambjan, who was working with a private furnishing company in Muvattupuzha, was nailing together laminated plywood sheets with an air pressure gun when the incident occurred. When the machine failed to operate in spite of the power supply being intact, he began inspecting it, with the nozzle of the gun pointed towards his chest.Accidentally, a nail shot out, piercing the spot where the right and the left ventricle of the heart join. The key valve involved in transporting blood into the heart, the left anterior descending artery, was also injured. In the surgery which lasted six-and-a-half hours, the doctors first removed the blood that trickled into the heart and then restored the heart pressure. A small portion of a vein was then removed from the leg and stitched together into the heart valves and the artery.
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