A TODAY VICTIM OF SECOND WORLD WAR

Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi. 2015 Apr-Jun;119(2):437-40.

Abstract

Emergency medicine as a medical specialty has to deal with all kind of emergency situations, from medical to post traumatic acute eyents and from new born to the elderly persons, but also with particular situations like explosions. In Romania nowadays these are accidental explosions and rare like frequency, but may be dramatic due to numbers of victims and multisystem injury that may occur. We present a case of a single victim of accidental detonated bomb, a projectile from the Second World War, which unfortunately still may be found in some areas. The management of the case from first call to 112 until the victim is discharge-involves high professional team work. We use these opportunity to make a brief review of the mechanism through the lesions may appear and also to renew the fact that the most impressive lesion may not be the most severe, and we have to examine carefully in order to find the real life threatening injury of the patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Injuries / diagnosis
  • Abdominal Injuries / etiology
  • Abdominal Injuries / surgery*
  • Adolescent
  • Amputation, Traumatic / etiology
  • Amputation, Traumatic / surgery*
  • Blast Injuries / complications
  • Blast Injuries / etiology
  • Blast Injuries / surgery*
  • Bombs
  • Explosions
  • Finger Injuries / etiology
  • Finger Injuries / surgery*
  • Hemoperitoneum / etiology
  • Hemoperitoneum / surgery*
  • Hepatectomy
  • Humans
  • Liver / injuries
  • Liver / surgery*
  • Male
  • Multiple Trauma / diagnosis
  • Multiple Trauma / etiology
  • Multiple Trauma / surgery*
  • Pneumoperitoneum / surgery
  • Romania
  • Thoracic Injuries / diagnosis
  • Thoracic Injuries / etiology
  • Thoracic Injuries / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • World War II