Rare penetrating abdominal injury caused by falling from height: Miraculously good prognosis

Yanquan Liu; Qinglin Xu; Hongquan Zhu; Jun Wang; Fanlin Zeng; Jie Lin

doi:10.3389/fsurg.2022.1018003

Rare penetrating abdominal injury caused by falling from height: Miraculously good prognosis

Front Surg. 2022 Oct 31:9:1018003. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2022.1018003. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yanquan Liu¹, Qinglin Xu¹, Hongquan Zhu¹, Jun Wang², Fanlin Zeng³, Jie Lin¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Medicine (Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit), The First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Jiangxi Provincial Clinical Key Specialized Department of Intensive Medicine, Ganzhou, China.
² Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China.
³ Department of General Surgery (Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery), The First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China.

Abstract

Fall from height causing penetrating abdominal visceral injuries is rare condition leading to abdominal multiorgan damage. It carries high mortality. A case of construction site worker sustaining penetrating visceral injuries by falling from height leading to impalement of steal bar from anus presented to our hospital and managed by timely evacuation from site of accident to hospital, resuscitations, radiological investigations and multi-Disciplinary team management lead to successful outcome. Our protocol for such cases will be discussed with references.

Keywords: fall from height injury; fatal trauma; multi-disciplinary treatment; penetrating abdominal injury; prognosis.