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Blunt Laryngeal Fracture Status Post Fall on a Paintball Gun

Laryngeal fracture is a rare but potentially lethal injury. A high degree of suspicion along with an expeditious investigation is warranted to prevent airway complications. The initial assessment of the airway is vital as the patient can suffer a severe anoxic brain injury. If the patient is stable,...

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Autores principales: Gray, Sanjiv, Khan, Khuram, Dieudonne, Beatrice, Iqbal, Farhana, Saeed, Saqib
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034959
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2637
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author Gray, Sanjiv
Khan, Khuram
Dieudonne, Beatrice
Iqbal, Farhana
Saeed, Saqib
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description Laryngeal fracture is a rare but potentially lethal injury. A high degree of suspicion along with an expeditious investigation is warranted to prevent airway complications. The initial assessment of the airway is vital as the patient can suffer a severe anoxic brain injury. If the patient is stable, a computed tomography (CT) scan of the neck should be obtained; this was done urgently for our patient and was managed without any extraneous intervention. We report a case of a 38-year-old man that presented to the emergency room with anterior neck pain after falling onto the back of a paintball gun. The patient was managed conservatively and favorable outcomes were obtained.
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spelling pubmed-60478372018-07-20 Blunt Laryngeal Fracture Status Post Fall on a Paintball Gun Gray, Sanjiv Khan, Khuram Dieudonne, Beatrice Iqbal, Farhana Saeed, Saqib Cureus Emergency Medicine Laryngeal fracture is a rare but potentially lethal injury. A high degree of suspicion along with an expeditious investigation is warranted to prevent airway complications. The initial assessment of the airway is vital as the patient can suffer a severe anoxic brain injury. If the patient is stable, a computed tomography (CT) scan of the neck should be obtained; this was done urgently for our patient and was managed without any extraneous intervention. We report a case of a 38-year-old man that presented to the emergency room with anterior neck pain after falling onto the back of a paintball gun. The patient was managed conservatively and favorable outcomes were obtained. Cureus 2018-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6047837/ /pubmed/30034959 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2637 Text en Copyright © 2018, Gray et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047837/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2637
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