RT Book, Section
A1 Morris, Ian R.
A2 Hung, Orlando
A2 Murphy, Michael F.
SR Print(0)
ID 55870650
T1 Chapter 34. Airway Management in Penetrating Neck Injury
T2 Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, 2e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162344-5
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55870650
RD 2024/04/23
AB A  previously  healthy  30-year-old  man  was  shot  at  close  range  with  a  low-caliber  handgun.  A  911  call  was  placed  immediately  and  paramedics  were  on  the  scene  within  10  minutes.  The  victim  was  fully  awake  and  cooperative.  There  was  a  single  gunshot  entrance  wound  in  the  midline  at  the  level  of  the  thyroid  cartilage  (Figure  34-1).  The  wound  was  about  5  mm  in  diameter  and  air  was  noted  to  be  escaping  from  it.  There  was  minimal  bleeding.  The  patient  complained  of  pain  in  the  area  of  the  anterior  neck  and  the  left  scapula.  He  also  complained  of  dyspnea  and  coughed  up  scant  bloody  sputum.  He  had  no  allergies,  was  on  no  medications,  and  was  previously  healthy.