Penetrating buttock trauma: A life‐threatening injury that highlights the importance of good collaboration with trauma receiving hospitals.
- Resource Type
- Case Study
- Authors
- Angelou, Dimitrios; McKeever, Mark; Doran, Amy; Malik, Momin
- Source
- Clinical Case Reports. Aug2022, Vol. 10 Issue 8, p1-3. 3p.
- Subject
- *PENETRATING wounds
*COMPUTED tomography
*TRAUMA centers
*CHRISTMAS trees
*TERMINALS (Transportation)
- Language
- ISSN
- 2050-0904
A 54‐year‐old lady was brought to our emergency department after falling from a stepladder onto the base of her artificial Christmas tree. The metallic rod impaled her through the right buttock. X‐rays and a computerized tomography were performed prior to transport to a trauma center causing delays to her surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]