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Successful Surgical Management of Intracranial Carotid Artery Trauma Following Penetrating Facial Injury: A Case Report.
Am J Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology, Sanford Medical Center Fargo, Fargo, ND, USA.
BACKGROUND Carotid artery injury has an incidence of 0.2% in the National Trauma Data Bank. The true incidence of intracranial carotid injury is unknown but can be estimated at less than one in 1000 trauma-related inpatient admissions in America.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPenetrating Chest Trauma With Right Atrial Rupture: A Case Report.
Cureus
December 2024
Student Research Unit, School of Medicine, 21 September University, Sana'a, YEM.
Penetrating thoracic injuries, especially those affecting cardiac structures, are rare but can be life-threatening, requiring urgent medical care. Right atrium injuries pose significant risks, including rapid blood loss, cardiac tamponade, hemodynamic instability, and, subsequently, potential death. We report the case of a 24-year-old male patient with stab wounds leading to a right-sided chest penetration three hours prior to presentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGun-related violence is becoming increasingly more common in the United States, and ballistic injuries pose a challenge to the orthopaedic surgeon on trauma call. The guiding principles of trauma care are almost exclusively based on blunt trauma, and the management principles do not always translate. Ballistic long bone fractures, particularly of the lower extremity, can often be managed with similar principles, although the injury pattern can make restoration of anatomic alignment a challenge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeedle stick injury and associated factors among acupuncture practitioners: a cross-sectional study in China.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Department of Infectious Diseases, Zigong First People's Hospital, Zigong, China.
Background: Needle stick injury (NSI) is one of the most common and severe occupational hazards for healthcare workers (HCWs), leading to both physical harm and psychological distress and ultimately affecting patient safety. Previous studies on NSI were predominantly focused on general clinical practice, and limited research has targeted specifical NSI occurring in acupuncture practice in China, which has the greatest use of acupuncture.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate NSI and associated factors among acupuncture practitioners in China.
An Unusual Case of Low Vision and Anisocoria Considered a Neurological Finding in the Emergency Department: Ocular Siderosis.
Turk J Ophthalmol
December 2024
Kastamonu Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Ophthalmology, Kastamonu, Türkiye.
We present the case of a patient who came to the emergency department with a significant decrease in vision and dilated pupil in the left eye. Since neurological pathologies were primarily considered, diffusion brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and brain computed tomography (CT) were requested. After the results were reported as normal, we were consulted.
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