SickKIds: Saving Augusta

Saving Augusta

• 7-year old Augusta lost 95% of her leg in a boating accident
• She was airlifted by Ornge to SickKids. Massive amounts of blood were needed to keep her alive.
• Through five surgeries, surgeons from SickKids and University Health Network were able to reattach her leg.
• But her sciatic nerve, which controls movement muscles and sensation, remained severed, leaving her leg unable to function.
• In a world-first paediatric procedure at SickKids, Dr. Gregory Borschel and his team were able to reattach and stimulate the nerve, bringing Augusta's leg back to life.
• Augusta is now an active 9-year-old rock climbing, kickboxing, dancing and snowboarding.
• The support of donors helps SickKids researchers continue to develop new treatments for injuries like Augusta's.
• "Things didn't change that much because... she just kept being Augusta and kept doing amazing things," said her mom Leslie.








Augusta’s incredible story garnered national attention!  See the article and 2 news stories below:
 

'Every angel was there': Doctors save girl's leg after boating accident

 

All of sudden, the family was in their “worst nightmare,” Leslie said. Her parents scooped Augusta out of the water and fashioned a makeshift tourniquet around her leg, which was more than 90 per cent severed. 

Augusta was airlifted to Toronto's SickKids Hospital, with a stop in Barrie, Ont. to replenish her blood supply. An emergency trauma team then set to work reconstructing her bones, muscles, arteries and veins.

“It was very severe,” said Dr. Gregory Borschel, staff surgeon in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital for Sick Children. 

“The nerve was completely divided in half and because of the severity of it, we had to do what's called nerve grafting, where we take a piece of nerve from elsewhere in Augusta's own body and then graft the defect to bridge the gap.”

Using new technology, the care team regenerated Augusta's nerves with electrical stimulation. 

Augusta is now back to being an active seven-year-old, enjoying dancing and rock climbing. 

“It's just some things I do differently than I did before,” Augusta said. 

For her mother, her daughter’s recovery “couldn’t have gone better after that horrible moment in time.” 

“Everything lined up,” Leslie Baker-Toews said. “Every angel was there.”

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