A lucky car accident
| Autor: | Marie-Luce Chirade, Apostolos C. Agrafiotis, Thomas Nguyen, Jean Louis Vincent, Marjorie Beumier, George El Khoury, Benjamin Tatete |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test Injury control business.industry Accidents Traffic Left thigh Poison control Wounds Penetrating Computed tomography Scalp laceration Foreign Bodies medicine.disease Radiography Hemodynamically stable Emergency surgery Emergency Medicine Humans Medicine Radiology Medical emergency business Motor vehicle crash |
| Zdroj: | CJEM. 15:237-238 |
| ISSN: | 1481-8043 1481-8035 |
| DOI: | 10.2310/8000.2012.120781 |
| Popis: | A 30-year-old male was admitted to our institution after a high-speed motor vehicle collision. The patient had remained hemodynamically stable and conscious throughout. He had a traffic pole perforating his left thigh (Figure 1 and Figure 2), but distal pulses were present and sensation was normal in all dermatomes. The patient also had multiple facial abrasions and a scalp laceration. Full-body computed tomography (CT) was performed. The scan showed a steel rod perforating the left thigh, revealing no other significant injury (Figure 3). Surprisingly, and despite the close proximity of the steel rod to the femoral vessels, no vascular lesions were observed on a contrast-enhanced CT scan. Emergency surgery was performed to remove the rod, and no major arterial or |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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