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Breaking the rules: a thoracic impalement injury
Author(s) -
Foot Carole L,
Naidoo Pat
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb123851.x
Subject(s) - object (grammar) , medicine , surgery , computer science , artificial intelligence
In the case of a patient with an impalement injury, the object should be removed in a controlled operating theatre environment. We report an 18‐year‐old man for whom this rule could not be followed. He was removed from a metal pipe transfixing his chest at the roadside.