A chief physician at the National Institute of Oncology carried out a life-saving emergency procedure on a stabbing victim in the street, performing a rare intervention that is almost unprecedented in Hungary.
According to a statement, the on-call unit of the Hungarian Air Ambulance Nonprofit Ltd was dispatched last Sunday to a man in his early thirties who had been stabbed in the heart. Zsolt Dubóczki, a chief physician at the institute, was on duty with the air ambulance service at the time.
Upon arrival, the situation was critical. Doctors determined that the patient had only minutes to live, and transporting him to hospital would likely have proved fatal. Following strict air rescue protocols, Dubóczki decided to carry out the intervention immediately at the scene.
Without access to a sterile operating theatre or advanced hospital equipment, the physician opened the man’s chest on the street and, within seven minutes, sutured the beating heart, stabilizing the patient’s condition for further treatment.
The institute noted that such an operation is unprecedented in Hungary and remains extremely rare even at the European level.
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