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Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation

Animal-induced trauma can lead to severe injury and death, especially in medically isolated settings. Few reports of hyena attacks on humans have been reported in the literature. The goal of this report is to describe such an attack and the heroic efforts required to preserve life and function in a...

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Autores principales: Macielak, Robert J, Green, Katerina J, Temam, Seid, Wiedermann, Joshua P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9558360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36249625
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29104
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Green, Katerina J
Temam, Seid
Wiedermann, Joshua P
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description Animal-induced trauma can lead to severe injury and death, especially in medically isolated settings. Few reports of hyena attacks on humans have been reported in the literature. The goal of this report is to describe such an attack and the heroic efforts required to preserve life and function in a resource-limited environment. A 55-year-old female was attacked by a hyena in a rural region of Ethiopia. Despite delays in medical care, she was able to survive this attack and was successfully discharged after prolonged treatment efforts. Animal-induced trauma is a potential source of substantial and disfiguring injury, especially in resource-limited environments. Early transfer to tertiary care centers and creative solutions are needed to optimize outcomes in such environments.
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spelling pubmed-95583602022-10-15 Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation Macielak, Robert J Green, Katerina J Temam, Seid Wiedermann, Joshua P Cureus Otolaryngology Animal-induced trauma can lead to severe injury and death, especially in medically isolated settings. Few reports of hyena attacks on humans have been reported in the literature. The goal of this report is to describe such an attack and the heroic efforts required to preserve life and function in a resource-limited environment. A 55-year-old female was attacked by a hyena in a rural region of Ethiopia. Despite delays in medical care, she was able to survive this attack and was successfully discharged after prolonged treatment efforts. Animal-induced trauma is a potential source of substantial and disfiguring injury, especially in resource-limited environments. Early transfer to tertiary care centers and creative solutions are needed to optimize outcomes in such environments. Cureus 2022-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9558360/ /pubmed/36249625 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29104 Text en Copyright © 2022, Macielak 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 Otolaryngology
Macielak, Robert J
Green, Katerina J
Temam, Seid
Wiedermann, Joshua P
Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation
title Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation
title_full Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation
title_fullStr Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation
title_full_unstemmed Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation
title_short Hyena Bite Injury to the Neck Leading to Laryngotracheal Separation
title_sort hyena bite injury to the neck leading to laryngotracheal separation
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9558360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36249625
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29104
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