In the cases of miraculous life saves, this one takes the crown for being most novel. A 30-year-old woman has successfully saved her life by breast implants. She survived a close-range gunshot on her chest for almost 2 years. Read on to know the complete details.
A Woman’s Breast Implant Bounced Away a Bullet & Saved Her Life
SAGE medical journal has published a study last week, in which doctors have described how a breast implant saved a 30-year-old woman’s life. The silicone-based breast implant deflected a bullet away from the woman’s vital organs.
The incident happened in 2018, in Toronto, Canada. It is one of the fortuitous incidents recorded in medical history. And also, this is the first recorded instance of a silicone breast implant.
The study also shared a brief about silicone-based breast implants. There are two types of breast implants approved for sale in the US. Both types of breasts have a silicone outer shell but in two different ways, one is saline-filled, and the other is silicone get-filled. They can vary in sizes, thickness, texture, and shape and are typically used in implants to increase the breast size or to rebuild the tissues which produce breast.
A brief about the injury from a Surgeon
However, the detail about the shooting is a secret. No one knows how the 30-year-old woman got injured by a bullet. The surgeon McEvenue told that she walked to a local emergency asking for treatment after being shot in the chest.
The bullet had hit her on the left side of the breast, but the rib fracture was experienced on the right side. The bullet entered the skin on the left side and then bounced back across her sternum into the right side of the breast.
The surgeon added, she would have had a terrible life-threatening injury if the bullet wound has gone into the chest, as on the left-hand side is the heart and lungs. At last, doctors were successful in treating the wound by removing implants and giving a short course of antibiotics.