Challenges of Impalement Injuries

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Department of Abdominal Surgery, Vladimir City Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine, Vladimir, Russia

10.4103/atr.atr_23_17

Abstract

Background: I read the paper on impalement injury by Kolahdouzan et al.
with interest, for what I would like to thank the authors.[1] I
would like to share an interesting case from our practice and
my viewpoint.
A 61‑year‑old male patient was brought in by paramedics and
a brigade of emergency situations with left‑sided thoracic
impalement injury. The patient, who was in a road maintenance
team, was impaled by a wooden block while driving his truck
in a construction site almost 2 h before admission [Figure 1].

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  • Receive Date: 15 May 2017
  • Accept Date: 15 July 2017

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