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A Test Bed to Examine Helmet Fit and Retention and Biomechanical Measures of Head and Neck Injury in Simulated Impact
Published on: September 21, 2017
[Penetrating neck injury of a blacksmith by splitter projectile]
T Fabian1, S G Sakka, S Trojan
1Klinik für Orthopädie, Unfallchirurgie und Sporttraumatologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Krankenhaus Köln Merheim, Universitätsklinikum Witten-Herdecke, Ostmerheimer Straße 200, 51109, Köln, Deutschland, fabiant@kliniken-koeln.de.
Abstract:
Laryngeal injuries are rare but potentially life-threatening injuries. Due to the topography of the neck, accompanying injuries of the greater blood vessels, cervical nerves, thoracic organs and spinal cord are common. Therefore in initial diagnostics, these must be excluded from injuries which determine the prognosis. A patient presented with ventral perforation of the larynx, initial dyspnea, hematemesis and left-sided emphysema of the neck. Cause of the findings, we treated the patient non-operatively in interdisciplinary consensus.
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