Post date: Aug 24, 2011 1:30:18 PM
China US Doctor -- US doctor invited for video consultation on recuperation of girl surviving ten-story fall
CCTV BEIJING - A Zhejiang hospital invited an American expert for consultation through the remote video system Wednesday for the recovery of a little girl who fell from a ten-story building and caught by a woman.
The little girl, Niu Niu, has been receiving treatment at the No. 2 Teaching Hospital of the Medical College of Zhejiang University, with limb functions on the left side recovering and eyesight returning to normal.
"We believe the woman that caught her is a real hero," said Doctor Perry, director of Neuromuscular Department of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. "Because she helped, she broke her arms. Obviously, that's a very important factor in the fact, in the reason why she is doing so well. Obviously I think the medical system is doing an excellent job with the surgery and everything that she is undergone. And I think with regard to her illnesses she has already gained an incredible amount of recovery, given what she was when she began."
After consulting with an American expert, the hospital has come out with a plan for the next step treatment.
Doctor Zhang Jianmin said that he was surprised to discover over the past two days that Niu Niu can move her left toes and this has made him even more confident that her hemiplegia will recover and the far-end muscle function will be better.
Wang Jian'an, head of the Neurosurgery Department of the hospital, said that they wanted to gather all best doctors specialized in this area to work for Niu Niu's recovery.
Now the little girl can stand on her own for a minute. But the muscle of her left leg is still too weak to sustain her standing for long, the doctor said. The hospital will adopt an additional herbal fumigation method to help the muscle function to recover and let her walk with the help of a walker.
The 31-year-old mother Wu Juping had her left arm bone fractured when she caught two-year-old girl falling from the 10th floor of a building in Hangzhou on July 2, 2011.
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