Surgical procedure in a patient with multiple facial fractures

Autor: José Jardón Caballero, Johannes René Mestre Cabello, Mario Rafael Leyet Martínez
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Medisan, Vol 20, Iss 11 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-3019
Popis: The case report of a 45 years patient that was assisted in the Emergency Intensive Cares Unit of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba is described, after falling down of an approximate height of 6 meters due to a high energy impact that provoked him fractures in the three thirds of the facial region. He was surgically treated as an emergency by a multidisciplinary team. After several surgical procedures and intubation with mechanical ventilation for 72 hours, he was referred to the Intensive Cares Unit due to his very serious state, where he stayed during 21 days and had a favorable clinical course.
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