Sanya Hongsen reports intensive care and rehabilitation after severe road trauma
A 62-year-old patient with major brain and lower-limb injuries received emergency surgery, intensive care and multidisciplinary rehabilitation at Sanya Hongsen Hospital.
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Sanya Hongsen Hospital has described the treatment of a 62-year-old patient left unconscious after a road accident. The injuries included severe traumatic intracranial bleeding, a skull-base fracture, brain herniation and a comminuted lower-limb fracture. The emergency team received the patient, rapidly completed imaging and began rescue treatment, according to the hospital's October 21, 2026 report.
From emergency operations to intensive care
Emergency procedures included evacuation of the intracranial haematoma with decompressive craniectomy, followed by open reduction and plate fixation of tibial and fibular fractures. After surgery, the patient was transferred to intensive care for ventilator life support, ongoing intracranial-pressure management and treatment against infection, with continuous monitoring of vital signs.
The course remained complicated. The report lists a state of light coma, aphasia, swallowing difficulty, lower-limb thrombosis and pulmonary fungal infection among the problems encountered. Care therefore extended beyond the initial operations.
Rehabilitation alongside continuing medical care
Neurosurgery, rehabilitation and traditional Chinese medicine teams joined the care. The hospital describes Xingnaojing as part of its combined Chinese and Western treatment intended to promote arousal, together with acupuncture, physical and occupational therapy, and swallowing, speech and cognitive rehabilitation. Nursing included tube feeding, airway care, wound care and anticoagulation.
At the stage reported, consciousness had become clearer and the patient could cooperate with simple instructions. The head and lower-limb surgical incisions had healed. However, responses remained slow, both legs were weak and rales on lung examination were still present. The hospital described continuing improvement, with these residual problems explicitly remaining.
For readers considering complex trauma care, the case provides a concrete sequence from emergency surgery through organ support and complication management to rehabilitation. Its result is partial progress in one patient, rather than a report of complete recovery or discharge. The account also does not isolate the effect of any one medicine or rehabilitation technique from the combined care.