Penetrating Ocular Trauma from a Bean Bag Gun: A Case Report and Review of Less-Lethal Force and Their Consequences

Mo Med. 2017 Jul-Aug;114(4):308-310.

Abstract

Although bean bag guns are considered a "less-lethal" form of law enforcement, these blunt projectiles have risk. The purpose of this study was to perform a literature review of morbidity and mortality associated with less-lethal munitions and present a case report of a bean bag injury leading to a traumatic globe evisceration and skull base fracture. Patients presenting with bean bag gun associated injuries warrant a high clinical suspicion for injury to deeper structures.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blindness / diagnosis
  • Blindness / etiology
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Eye Enucleation / methods
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / complications
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / diagnosis
  • Eye Foreign Bodies / epidemiology
  • Eye Injuries, Penetrating / complications
  • Eye Injuries, Penetrating / diagnosis
  • Eye Injuries, Penetrating / pathology
  • Firearms / classification*
  • Firearms / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Injury Severity Score
  • Male
  • Skull Base / injuries
  • Skull Base / pathology
  • Wounds, Gunshot / diagnosis*
  • Wounds, Gunshot / epidemiology
  • Wounds, Gunshot / surgery*
  • Wounds, Penetrating / complications
  • Wounds, Penetrating / pathology
  • Wounds, Penetrating / surgery*