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Crush injury by an elephant: life‐saving prehospital care resulting in a good recovery
Author(s) -
Young Alice M,
Joseph Anthony P,
Jackson Alicia
Publication year - 2015
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/mja15.00519
Subject(s) - shore , citation , alice (programming language) , history , medicine , library science , art history , computer science , geology , oceanography
The 1200 kg male Asian elephant was born in captivity and was well known to the keeper. On the day of the incident, they were involved in a training session when the elephant challenged an instruction. The keeper recognised this change in his behaviour and tried to leave the training area, but the elephant used his trunk to pin her by the chest against a bollard in the barn, resulting in immediate dyspnoea and brief loss of consciousness for 20e30 seconds. Her colleagues arrived and moved her to safety.