A specialized team of neurosurgeons at Prince Meteb bin Abdulaziz Hospital in Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia, successfully saved the life of a 16-year-old girl who had entered a coma due to a car accident that resulted in a skull fracture and caused severe internal bleeding. The Al-Jouf Health Cluster revealed that the patient was brought to the emergency department at Sakaka Hospital while in a complete coma, with only a consciousness level of 7 out of 15. Immediate imaging and necessary medical tests showed that she had severe bleeding inside the brain, along with a compound depressed skull fracture in the midsection of her head, suspected severe tear in the superior venous sinus, and bleeding in the brain tissue.
The health cluster explained that the medical team urgently decided to perform surgical intervention by opening the skull and removing the bleeding beneath the dura mater, along with repairing the torn superior venous sinus. The surgical procedure was successful, resulting in an improvement in the patient's condition, with her consciousness level rising to a full 15 out of 15. Additionally, she experienced no neurological complications and was discharged from the hospital in good health, with follow-up appointments scheduled at the hospital's outpatient clinics.
