Penetrating facial injury from angle grinder use: management and prevention
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Penetrating facial injury from angle grinder use: management and prevention
Injuries resulting from the use of angle grinders are numerous. The most common sites injured are the head and face. The high speed disc of angle grinders does not respect anatomical boundaries or structures and thus the injuries produced can be disfiguring, permanently disabling or even fatal. However, aesthetically pleasing results can be achieved with thorough debridement, resection of wound...
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Experiments were conducted on soft-tissue and bone preparations to determine the morphological characteristics of angle grinder injuries. The grinding effect of the rotating cutting-off wheel causes severances with local loss of tissue, resulting in tool-specific wound features. Superficial skin notches and (incomplete) severances of bony structures are of particular significance. Mutual trace ...
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Angle grinders utilise a rapidly rotating metal or carbon disc to cut, grind and polish metal, concrete and other hard surfaces. Improper use with disregard to safety procedures can result in serious injuries, most commonly involving the face and upper limbs. Although these injuries can be mutilating, they are rarely fatal and inmost patients a good aesthetic result is achievable with meticulou...
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A 20-year-old motorcycle messenger crashed into a truck transporting structural pipes. Accidentally a 3 cm diameter pipe penetrated his right inferior orbit and soft tissue below the left posterior lateral neck. When he arrived at the emergency room, there was a blunt wound with active bleeding in his right zygoma and haematoma in his left neck. On CT the metallic pipe passed through the inferi...
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Nonmissile low-velocity penetrating brain injuries are unusual among civilian population. Work-related penetrating head wounds are rarer among this group. Here, we report two rare cases of penetrating head wounds caused by industrial grinder tool. The patients (both men) were struck to the head by detached blades of the grinder tool. Depressed fractures, penetrated bone fragments, and dural lac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Head & Face Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1746-160X
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160x-4-1