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Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture?
Traumatic amputations are partial or complete dismemberment of part of the human body (usually one limb) due to an injury that involves a component of blunt force trauma. It is usually caused by accidental events and only very rarely due to suicidal events. A 37-year-old female with major depressive...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437003/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34532196 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17176 |
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author | Ogedegbe, Chinwe Udongwo, Ndausung Kalejaiye, Ayoola Alshami, Abbas Alfraji, Nasam Spariousu, Magdalene |
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description | Traumatic amputations are partial or complete dismemberment of part of the human body (usually one limb) due to an injury that involves a component of blunt force trauma. It is usually caused by accidental events and only very rarely due to suicidal events. A 37-year-old female with major depressive disorder attempted suicide by placing her forearms on a railroad track, resulting in traumatic bilateral upper extremity amputations. Emergency Department resuscitation was initiated as the patient was taken immediately to the operating room; however, restoration of the limbs was unfeasible, and the patient had successful debriding and fashioning a flap to the distal ends of the upper extremities after hemostasis was achieved. Depression may still be an undertreated clinical entity in our society, and many preventable causes of suicide are attempted each year. Evidence exists that suggests severe suicide attempts occur generally in men and minor suicide attempts, or so-called suicidal gestures, occur generally in women. This case questions this notion. |
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spelling | pubmed-84370032021-09-15 Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? Ogedegbe, Chinwe Udongwo, Ndausung Kalejaiye, Ayoola Alshami, Abbas Alfraji, Nasam Spariousu, Magdalene Cureus Psychiatry Traumatic amputations are partial or complete dismemberment of part of the human body (usually one limb) due to an injury that involves a component of blunt force trauma. It is usually caused by accidental events and only very rarely due to suicidal events. A 37-year-old female with major depressive disorder attempted suicide by placing her forearms on a railroad track, resulting in traumatic bilateral upper extremity amputations. Emergency Department resuscitation was initiated as the patient was taken immediately to the operating room; however, restoration of the limbs was unfeasible, and the patient had successful debriding and fashioning a flap to the distal ends of the upper extremities after hemostasis was achieved. Depression may still be an undertreated clinical entity in our society, and many preventable causes of suicide are attempted each year. Evidence exists that suggests severe suicide attempts occur generally in men and minor suicide attempts, or so-called suicidal gestures, occur generally in women. This case questions this notion. Cureus 2021-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8437003/ /pubmed/34532196 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17176 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ogedegbe et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Ogedegbe, Chinwe Udongwo, Ndausung Kalejaiye, Ayoola Alshami, Abbas Alfraji, Nasam Spariousu, Magdalene Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? |
title | Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? |
title_full | Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? |
title_fullStr | Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? |
title_short | Self-Inflicted Traumatic Bilateral Upper Extremity Amputation as a Suicidal Gesture? |
title_sort | self-inflicted traumatic bilateral upper extremity amputation as a suicidal gesture? |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437003/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34532196 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17176 |
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