Severe craniofacial trauma after multiple pistol shots

A 48-year-old woman suffered from life-threatening injuries in head and chest caused by six pistol shots fired at close range in an attempted homicide. We report here on our successful airway management and bleeding control at the scene of crime and the multidisciplinary surgical treatment of the as...

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Published in:Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) Poland), 2019-01, Vol.14 (1), p.629-632
Main Authors: Haller, Ingrid, Lederer, Wolfgang, Glodny, Bernhard, Wiedermann, Franz J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Airway management
Anesthesiology
Case Report
Critical care
Head injury
Injuries
Intubation
Murders & murder attempts
Ostomy
Patients
Pistol shot
Respiration
Shootings
Sinuses
Surgeons
Trauma
Ventilators
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Summary:A 48-year-old woman suffered from life-threatening injuries in head and chest caused by six pistol shots fired at close range in an attempted homicide. We report here on our successful airway management and bleeding control at the scene of crime and the multidisciplinary surgical treatment of the associated head and neurovascular injuries.
ISSN:2391-5463
2391-5463
DOI:10.1515/med-2019-0072