Penetrating cardiac injuries: assessment of 21 patients

Penetrating cardiac injuries in the United Kingdom.

Penetrating cardiac injuries in blunt chest wall trauma.

The present photocase illustrates the possible mechanism of direct cardiac injuries from broken sharp jagged fractured ends of ribs in blunt force trauma to the chest in run over traffic mishaps. We propose that the projecting fractured ends of the ribs penetrate the underlying thoracic organs due to the transient phenomenon of deformation of chest cavity under pressure in run over traffic mish...

Penetrating head injuries.

The story begins long before the dawn of recorded history, at the time when man learned to use sticks and stones as weapons. We shall trace the injuries caused by weapons, which became increasingly more deadly from the Stone Age, through the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece to modern times. What do we mean by a penetrating wound of the head? There are three kinds of head injury. First,...

Renal Injuries: Penetrating

Data from 17,726 battle casualties admitted to all the US Army hospitals in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) from March 1966 to July 1967 (60% of all patients wounded during this time) revealed that 13.8% of all wounds involved the abdomen, and that the kidney was involved in approximately 9% of those with abdominal wounds. The mortality in this group (who had renal wounds as a component of their ...

Penetrating eye injuries.

A review of all penetrating eye injuries treated at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital over four years (1 January 1982-31 December 1985) was undertaken. A total of 202 penetrating eye injuries were seen of which 68 (34%) were in children under the age of 15 years. Airgun, dart, and knife injuries accounted for 28 (41%) of the injuries. Thirty seven patients (54%) achieved a good visual result (6...