Spagnoli L, Amadasi A, Frustaci M, Mazzarelli D, Porta D, Cattaneo C. Characteristics and time-dependence of cut marks and blunt force fractures on costal cartilages: an experimental study. Blunt force trauma is routinely involved in cases classified as accidents, as well as in cases of suicide and homicide. Left atrial blood proceeds through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. [Medline]. In four cases, police withheld the cause of death.
2020; Accessed: September 21, 2020. [Medline]. Histologic examination is generally not as important as gross impressions in the evaluation of blunt force injuries. Share cases and questions with Physicians on Medscape consult. Can J Public Health. The lungs occupy most of the volume of each hemithorax.
Right ventricular contraction forces blood through the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary arteries. 2006 Jul. [Full Text]. DiMaio VJ, DiMaio D. Blunt trauma wounds and blunt trauma injuries of the trunk and extremities. The killing of Teresa Dejesus Esquivel-Robles was labelled a murder-suicide after she was found dead in a home in July. 2002 Mar. [SEE articles: Tutankhamun's death The Saga of Tutankhamen's Skull X-rays King Tut Not Murdered Violently, CT Scans Show. [Medline]. Robertson I, Hodge PR. Mean age of deceased patients was 61 years and 61% were male.
J Trauma. Endovascular stent grafting for the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injury.
A prospective database study of all trauma patients admitted to an urban major trauma centre between January 2007 and December 2016 was conducted. The post-mortem concluded that the deaths of the Mynah birds were due to blunt trauma. In general, the more repair present, the older the wound. 1998 May. Kibbi A-G, Tannous Z, Kurban M, Bahhady RF, Harb DI. The bronchi continue to arborize to supply the pulmonary segments and subsegments. [Medline]. 2003 Apr. Medscape Drugs & Diseases from WebMD.
At this point, the spinal cord may be removed from the posterior aspect and examined for injury. 2nd ed. 2020 Jul 31. These injuries are often seen in combination with one another. Further, 2 time periods (2007-2012 and 2013-2016) were selected representing periods before and after implementation of haemostatic resuscitation and damage control procedures in our hospital to analyse cause of death into detail. These iatrogenic artifacts include oral contusions/lacerations resulting from intubation; skin and soft tissue hemorrhage resulting from intravascular catheter placement (see the image below); abrasions resulting from defibrillation; bladder mucosal hemorrhage resulting from the placement of Foley catheters; and rib fractures caused by compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The nerves that make up the brachial plexus also access the upper extremities via the thoracic outlet. 2019 Jan. 50 (1):96-100. In particular, chest trauma is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Zátopková L, Janík M, Urbanová P, Mottlová J, Hejna P. Forensic Sci Int. Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. The kinetic energy associated with a moving object is equal to one half the mass of that object multiplied by the velocity of the object squared (1/2 mv2). 332 (6):356-62. USA.gov. Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of traumatic rupture of the aorta. J Trauma. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. [Medline]. Epub 2009 Jan 14. One practical approach is to consider contusions acute or recent (if they are purple/red/blue and show no histologic repair) versus resolving (if they are yellow/green/brown/gray and show histologic repair). J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Depending on how sharp the weapon is, these may resemble either gaping lacerations or large cuts with marginal abrasion and are often associated with underlying fractures. Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov. Causes of death appearing to be blunt trauma. 2nd ed. Avulsion: A more severe form of laceration in which the soft tissues, musculature, and/or bone are torn away from the normal points of attachment (as seen in the image below). Gavant ML, Menke PG, Fabian T, Flick PA, Graney MJ, Gold RE. Histologically, dendritic melanocytes reside in the dermis creating an appearance similar to that of a blue nevus.
NIH Mohapatra A, Liang NL, Makaroun MS, Schermerhorn ML, Farber A, Eslami MH. Clinical review is essential to evaluate 30-day mortality after trauma. Keywords:
Chest radiographs of limited utility in the diagnosis of blunt traumatic aortic laceration. HHS J Trauma. Deshpande A, Mossop P, Gurry J, Frydman G, Matalanis G, Walker P, et al. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 May. Overall, blunt thoracic injuries are directly responsible for 20-25% of all deaths, and chest trauma is a major contributor in another 50% of deaths. Brain injury; Cause of death; Exsanguination; Trauma. NLM Postmortem changes on the chest caused by insect activity. J Endovasc Ther. 1997 Apr. A total of 43 strangulation cases were found, of which there were equal numbers of ligature and manual strangulations (19 each) and 5 cases in which the method was not specified, and decedents were divided: 63% female and 37% male. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primarily … Minister for Agriculture Hon. The inner lining of the chest wall is the parietal pleura. In such scenarios, it is advisable to take photographs with a scaled ruler to help identify the object (see the images below). | In most cases of cutaneous and soft tissue injury, the histologic findings should be viewed as an adjunct to the gross impression. Anterior neck dissection demonstrating hemorrhage within several strap muscles. 2017 Mar. [Medline]. 1957. 1997 May. The thoracic duct arises primarily from the cisterna chyli in the abdomen. J Scott Denton, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria; Forensic Pathologist and Illinois Coroners’ Physician 2007 May. 2001 Dec. 51 (6):1049-53.
https://profreg.medscape.com/px/getpracticeprofile.do?method=getProfessionalProfile&urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVkaWNpbmUubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDI4NzIzLW92ZXJ2aWV3, The use of thoracoscopy for the diagnosis and management of thoracic injuries will increase; the use of ultrasonography (US) for the diagnosis of conditions such as hemothorax and cardiac tamponade will become more widespread; spiral (helical) computed tomography (CT) techniques will be used more frequently for definitive diagnosis of major vascular lesions (eg, injuries to the thoracic aorta and its branches), Endovascular techniques for the repair of great-vessel injuries will be developed further and applied more frequently, Patient selection and nonsurgical therapies for delayed operative management of thoracic aortic rupture will be refined. Whereas nonspecific blunt force injuries provide no hint as to what may have caused them, a patterned abrasion or contusion recapitulates some features of the impacting object. Northfield, Ill: College of American Pathologists; 2003. Burlington, Mass: Elsevier; 2005. 15 (1):45. [Medline]. Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. Blunt traumatic aortic rupture: detection with helical CT of the chest. People dying natural deaths often have minor blunt force injuries that do not contribute to death -- small abrasions or contusions on the skin are commonplace at autopsy. Blunt traumatic occult pneumothorax: is observation safe?--results of a prospective, AAST multicenter study. [Medline]. For the great majority of patients with blunt chest trauma, outcome and prognosis are excellent. J Trauma.
Insect activity often results in superficial, sharply demarcated, epidermal lesions on exposed surfaces of the body. As previously mentioned, the age of contusions and abrasions occur can only be determined in a general manner. Emerg Radiol. Mary C Mancini, MD, PhD, MMM Surgeon-in-Chief and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christus Highland J Vasc Surg. There does seem to be some merit in using histology to date fractures, albeit the time frames suggested by histologic examination are general and are not specific to the hour, day, or week. Appropriate photographs vary according to the individual case and the individual pathologist. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: blunt chest trauma-suspected cardiac injury. Blunt force injury.
Child Abuse Negl. 2014 Mar 13;22:18. doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-22-18. [Medline]. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Minister for Agriculture Hon. KLRT Little Rock. World J Surg. May 8, 2020; Accessed: September 18, 2020. Dogrul BN, Kiliccalan I, Asci ES, Peker SC. [Guideline] Galvagno SM Jr, Smith CE, Varon AJ, Hasenboehler EA, Sultan S, Shaefer G, et al. [Medline]. [Medline]. Documentation of the color of contusions may be as important as their configuration and distribution in some cases.
Telemedicine for Surgical Consultations -- Pandemic Response or Here to Stay? Int J Legal Med. John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF is a member of the following medical societies: American Gastroenterological Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Nephrology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Society of Nephrology, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary TractDisclosure: Nothing to disclose. Procedures, 2002
Most such injuries can be treated with supportive measures and simple interventional procedures such as tube thoracostomy. Spitz WU, Spitz DJ, eds. A study using data from the TraumaRegister of the German Trauma Society (N = 50,519) found obesity to have a negative impact on outcomes after blunt chest trauma (ie, increased duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit [ICU] stay, and hospital stay), though it did not document a comparable effect on mortality.
As such, it constitutes a major health care problem. J Heart Valve Dis. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. J Trauma. This chapter focuses on the cutaneous manifestations of blunt force injury. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
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Epub 2019 Nov 26.
Spagnoli L, Amadasi A, Frustaci M, Mazzarelli D, Porta D, Cattaneo C. Characteristics and time-dependence of cut marks and blunt force fractures on costal cartilages: an experimental study. Blunt force trauma is routinely involved in cases classified as accidents, as well as in cases of suicide and homicide. Left atrial blood proceeds through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. [Medline]. In four cases, police withheld the cause of death.
2020; Accessed: September 21, 2020. [Medline]. Histologic examination is generally not as important as gross impressions in the evaluation of blunt force injuries. Share cases and questions with Physicians on Medscape consult. Can J Public Health. The lungs occupy most of the volume of each hemithorax.
Right ventricular contraction forces blood through the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary arteries. 2006 Jul. [Full Text]. DiMaio VJ, DiMaio D. Blunt trauma wounds and blunt trauma injuries of the trunk and extremities. The killing of Teresa Dejesus Esquivel-Robles was labelled a murder-suicide after she was found dead in a home in July. 2002 Mar. [SEE articles: Tutankhamun's death The Saga of Tutankhamen's Skull X-rays King Tut Not Murdered Violently, CT Scans Show. [Medline]. Robertson I, Hodge PR. Mean age of deceased patients was 61 years and 61% were male.
J Trauma. Endovascular stent grafting for the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injury.
A prospective database study of all trauma patients admitted to an urban major trauma centre between January 2007 and December 2016 was conducted. The post-mortem concluded that the deaths of the Mynah birds were due to blunt trauma. In general, the more repair present, the older the wound. 1998 May. Kibbi A-G, Tannous Z, Kurban M, Bahhady RF, Harb DI. The bronchi continue to arborize to supply the pulmonary segments and subsegments. [Medline]. 2003 Apr. Medscape Drugs & Diseases from WebMD.
At this point, the spinal cord may be removed from the posterior aspect and examined for injury. 2nd ed. 2020 Jul 31. These injuries are often seen in combination with one another. Further, 2 time periods (2007-2012 and 2013-2016) were selected representing periods before and after implementation of haemostatic resuscitation and damage control procedures in our hospital to analyse cause of death into detail. These iatrogenic artifacts include oral contusions/lacerations resulting from intubation; skin and soft tissue hemorrhage resulting from intravascular catheter placement (see the image below); abrasions resulting from defibrillation; bladder mucosal hemorrhage resulting from the placement of Foley catheters; and rib fractures caused by compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The nerves that make up the brachial plexus also access the upper extremities via the thoracic outlet. 2019 Jan. 50 (1):96-100. In particular, chest trauma is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Zátopková L, Janík M, Urbanová P, Mottlová J, Hejna P. Forensic Sci Int. Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. The kinetic energy associated with a moving object is equal to one half the mass of that object multiplied by the velocity of the object squared (1/2 mv2). 332 (6):356-62. USA.gov. Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of traumatic rupture of the aorta. J Trauma. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. [Medline]. Epub 2009 Jan 14. One practical approach is to consider contusions acute or recent (if they are purple/red/blue and show no histologic repair) versus resolving (if they are yellow/green/brown/gray and show histologic repair). J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Depending on how sharp the weapon is, these may resemble either gaping lacerations or large cuts with marginal abrasion and are often associated with underlying fractures. Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov. Causes of death appearing to be blunt trauma. 2nd ed. Avulsion: A more severe form of laceration in which the soft tissues, musculature, and/or bone are torn away from the normal points of attachment (as seen in the image below). Gavant ML, Menke PG, Fabian T, Flick PA, Graney MJ, Gold RE. Histologically, dendritic melanocytes reside in the dermis creating an appearance similar to that of a blue nevus.
NIH Mohapatra A, Liang NL, Makaroun MS, Schermerhorn ML, Farber A, Eslami MH. Clinical review is essential to evaluate 30-day mortality after trauma. Keywords:
Chest radiographs of limited utility in the diagnosis of blunt traumatic aortic laceration. HHS J Trauma. Deshpande A, Mossop P, Gurry J, Frydman G, Matalanis G, Walker P, et al. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 May. Overall, blunt thoracic injuries are directly responsible for 20-25% of all deaths, and chest trauma is a major contributor in another 50% of deaths. Brain injury; Cause of death; Exsanguination; Trauma. NLM Postmortem changes on the chest caused by insect activity. J Endovasc Ther. 1997 Apr. A total of 43 strangulation cases were found, of which there were equal numbers of ligature and manual strangulations (19 each) and 5 cases in which the method was not specified, and decedents were divided: 63% female and 37% male. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primarily … Minister for Agriculture Hon. The inner lining of the chest wall is the parietal pleura. In such scenarios, it is advisable to take photographs with a scaled ruler to help identify the object (see the images below). | In most cases of cutaneous and soft tissue injury, the histologic findings should be viewed as an adjunct to the gross impression. Anterior neck dissection demonstrating hemorrhage within several strap muscles. 2017 Mar. [Medline]. 1957. 1997 May. The thoracic duct arises primarily from the cisterna chyli in the abdomen. J Scott Denton, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria; Forensic Pathologist and Illinois Coroners’ Physician 2007 May. 2001 Dec. 51 (6):1049-53.
https://profreg.medscape.com/px/getpracticeprofile.do?method=getProfessionalProfile&urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVkaWNpbmUubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDI4NzIzLW92ZXJ2aWV3, The use of thoracoscopy for the diagnosis and management of thoracic injuries will increase; the use of ultrasonography (US) for the diagnosis of conditions such as hemothorax and cardiac tamponade will become more widespread; spiral (helical) computed tomography (CT) techniques will be used more frequently for definitive diagnosis of major vascular lesions (eg, injuries to the thoracic aorta and its branches), Endovascular techniques for the repair of great-vessel injuries will be developed further and applied more frequently, Patient selection and nonsurgical therapies for delayed operative management of thoracic aortic rupture will be refined. Whereas nonspecific blunt force injuries provide no hint as to what may have caused them, a patterned abrasion or contusion recapitulates some features of the impacting object. Northfield, Ill: College of American Pathologists; 2003. Burlington, Mass: Elsevier; 2005. 15 (1):45. [Medline]. Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. Blunt traumatic aortic rupture: detection with helical CT of the chest. People dying natural deaths often have minor blunt force injuries that do not contribute to death -- small abrasions or contusions on the skin are commonplace at autopsy. Blunt traumatic occult pneumothorax: is observation safe?--results of a prospective, AAST multicenter study. [Medline]. For the great majority of patients with blunt chest trauma, outcome and prognosis are excellent. J Trauma.
Insect activity often results in superficial, sharply demarcated, epidermal lesions on exposed surfaces of the body. As previously mentioned, the age of contusions and abrasions occur can only be determined in a general manner. Emerg Radiol. Mary C Mancini, MD, PhD, MMM Surgeon-in-Chief and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christus Highland J Vasc Surg. There does seem to be some merit in using histology to date fractures, albeit the time frames suggested by histologic examination are general and are not specific to the hour, day, or week. Appropriate photographs vary according to the individual case and the individual pathologist. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: blunt chest trauma-suspected cardiac injury. Blunt force injury.
Child Abuse Negl. 2014 Mar 13;22:18. doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-22-18. [Medline]. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Minister for Agriculture Hon. KLRT Little Rock. World J Surg. May 8, 2020; Accessed: September 18, 2020. Dogrul BN, Kiliccalan I, Asci ES, Peker SC. [Guideline] Galvagno SM Jr, Smith CE, Varon AJ, Hasenboehler EA, Sultan S, Shaefer G, et al. [Medline]. [Medline]. Documentation of the color of contusions may be as important as their configuration and distribution in some cases.
Telemedicine for Surgical Consultations -- Pandemic Response or Here to Stay? Int J Legal Med. John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF is a member of the following medical societies: American Gastroenterological Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Nephrology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Society of Nephrology, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary TractDisclosure: Nothing to disclose. Procedures, 2002
Most such injuries can be treated with supportive measures and simple interventional procedures such as tube thoracostomy. Spitz WU, Spitz DJ, eds. A study using data from the TraumaRegister of the German Trauma Society (N = 50,519) found obesity to have a negative impact on outcomes after blunt chest trauma (ie, increased duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit [ICU] stay, and hospital stay), though it did not document a comparable effect on mortality.
As such, it constitutes a major health care problem. J Heart Valve Dis. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. J Trauma. This chapter focuses on the cutaneous manifestations of blunt force injury. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
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Epub 2019 Nov 26.
Spagnoli L, Amadasi A, Frustaci M, Mazzarelli D, Porta D, Cattaneo C. Characteristics and time-dependence of cut marks and blunt force fractures on costal cartilages: an experimental study. Blunt force trauma is routinely involved in cases classified as accidents, as well as in cases of suicide and homicide. Left atrial blood proceeds through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. [Medline]. In four cases, police withheld the cause of death.
2020; Accessed: September 21, 2020. [Medline]. Histologic examination is generally not as important as gross impressions in the evaluation of blunt force injuries. Share cases and questions with Physicians on Medscape consult. Can J Public Health. The lungs occupy most of the volume of each hemithorax.
Right ventricular contraction forces blood through the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary arteries. 2006 Jul. [Full Text]. DiMaio VJ, DiMaio D. Blunt trauma wounds and blunt trauma injuries of the trunk and extremities. The killing of Teresa Dejesus Esquivel-Robles was labelled a murder-suicide after she was found dead in a home in July. 2002 Mar. [SEE articles: Tutankhamun's death The Saga of Tutankhamen's Skull X-rays King Tut Not Murdered Violently, CT Scans Show. [Medline]. Robertson I, Hodge PR. Mean age of deceased patients was 61 years and 61% were male.
J Trauma. Endovascular stent grafting for the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injury.
A prospective database study of all trauma patients admitted to an urban major trauma centre between January 2007 and December 2016 was conducted. The post-mortem concluded that the deaths of the Mynah birds were due to blunt trauma. In general, the more repair present, the older the wound. 1998 May. Kibbi A-G, Tannous Z, Kurban M, Bahhady RF, Harb DI. The bronchi continue to arborize to supply the pulmonary segments and subsegments. [Medline]. 2003 Apr. Medscape Drugs & Diseases from WebMD.
At this point, the spinal cord may be removed from the posterior aspect and examined for injury. 2nd ed. 2020 Jul 31. These injuries are often seen in combination with one another. Further, 2 time periods (2007-2012 and 2013-2016) were selected representing periods before and after implementation of haemostatic resuscitation and damage control procedures in our hospital to analyse cause of death into detail. These iatrogenic artifacts include oral contusions/lacerations resulting from intubation; skin and soft tissue hemorrhage resulting from intravascular catheter placement (see the image below); abrasions resulting from defibrillation; bladder mucosal hemorrhage resulting from the placement of Foley catheters; and rib fractures caused by compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The nerves that make up the brachial plexus also access the upper extremities via the thoracic outlet. 2019 Jan. 50 (1):96-100. In particular, chest trauma is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Zátopková L, Janík M, Urbanová P, Mottlová J, Hejna P. Forensic Sci Int. Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. The kinetic energy associated with a moving object is equal to one half the mass of that object multiplied by the velocity of the object squared (1/2 mv2). 332 (6):356-62. USA.gov. Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of traumatic rupture of the aorta. J Trauma. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. [Medline]. Epub 2009 Jan 14. One practical approach is to consider contusions acute or recent (if they are purple/red/blue and show no histologic repair) versus resolving (if they are yellow/green/brown/gray and show histologic repair). J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Depending on how sharp the weapon is, these may resemble either gaping lacerations or large cuts with marginal abrasion and are often associated with underlying fractures. Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov. Causes of death appearing to be blunt trauma. 2nd ed. Avulsion: A more severe form of laceration in which the soft tissues, musculature, and/or bone are torn away from the normal points of attachment (as seen in the image below). Gavant ML, Menke PG, Fabian T, Flick PA, Graney MJ, Gold RE. Histologically, dendritic melanocytes reside in the dermis creating an appearance similar to that of a blue nevus.
NIH Mohapatra A, Liang NL, Makaroun MS, Schermerhorn ML, Farber A, Eslami MH. Clinical review is essential to evaluate 30-day mortality after trauma. Keywords:
Chest radiographs of limited utility in the diagnosis of blunt traumatic aortic laceration. HHS J Trauma. Deshpande A, Mossop P, Gurry J, Frydman G, Matalanis G, Walker P, et al. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 May. Overall, blunt thoracic injuries are directly responsible for 20-25% of all deaths, and chest trauma is a major contributor in another 50% of deaths. Brain injury; Cause of death; Exsanguination; Trauma. NLM Postmortem changes on the chest caused by insect activity. J Endovasc Ther. 1997 Apr. A total of 43 strangulation cases were found, of which there were equal numbers of ligature and manual strangulations (19 each) and 5 cases in which the method was not specified, and decedents were divided: 63% female and 37% male. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primarily … Minister for Agriculture Hon. The inner lining of the chest wall is the parietal pleura. In such scenarios, it is advisable to take photographs with a scaled ruler to help identify the object (see the images below). | In most cases of cutaneous and soft tissue injury, the histologic findings should be viewed as an adjunct to the gross impression. Anterior neck dissection demonstrating hemorrhage within several strap muscles. 2017 Mar. [Medline]. 1957. 1997 May. The thoracic duct arises primarily from the cisterna chyli in the abdomen. J Scott Denton, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria; Forensic Pathologist and Illinois Coroners’ Physician 2007 May. 2001 Dec. 51 (6):1049-53.
https://profreg.medscape.com/px/getpracticeprofile.do?method=getProfessionalProfile&urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVkaWNpbmUubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDI4NzIzLW92ZXJ2aWV3, The use of thoracoscopy for the diagnosis and management of thoracic injuries will increase; the use of ultrasonography (US) for the diagnosis of conditions such as hemothorax and cardiac tamponade will become more widespread; spiral (helical) computed tomography (CT) techniques will be used more frequently for definitive diagnosis of major vascular lesions (eg, injuries to the thoracic aorta and its branches), Endovascular techniques for the repair of great-vessel injuries will be developed further and applied more frequently, Patient selection and nonsurgical therapies for delayed operative management of thoracic aortic rupture will be refined. Whereas nonspecific blunt force injuries provide no hint as to what may have caused them, a patterned abrasion or contusion recapitulates some features of the impacting object. Northfield, Ill: College of American Pathologists; 2003. Burlington, Mass: Elsevier; 2005. 15 (1):45. [Medline]. Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. Blunt traumatic aortic rupture: detection with helical CT of the chest. People dying natural deaths often have minor blunt force injuries that do not contribute to death -- small abrasions or contusions on the skin are commonplace at autopsy. Blunt traumatic occult pneumothorax: is observation safe?--results of a prospective, AAST multicenter study. [Medline]. For the great majority of patients with blunt chest trauma, outcome and prognosis are excellent. J Trauma.
Insect activity often results in superficial, sharply demarcated, epidermal lesions on exposed surfaces of the body. As previously mentioned, the age of contusions and abrasions occur can only be determined in a general manner. Emerg Radiol. Mary C Mancini, MD, PhD, MMM Surgeon-in-Chief and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christus Highland J Vasc Surg. There does seem to be some merit in using histology to date fractures, albeit the time frames suggested by histologic examination are general and are not specific to the hour, day, or week. Appropriate photographs vary according to the individual case and the individual pathologist. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: blunt chest trauma-suspected cardiac injury. Blunt force injury.
Child Abuse Negl. 2014 Mar 13;22:18. doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-22-18. [Medline]. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Minister for Agriculture Hon. KLRT Little Rock. World J Surg. May 8, 2020; Accessed: September 18, 2020. Dogrul BN, Kiliccalan I, Asci ES, Peker SC. [Guideline] Galvagno SM Jr, Smith CE, Varon AJ, Hasenboehler EA, Sultan S, Shaefer G, et al. [Medline]. [Medline]. Documentation of the color of contusions may be as important as their configuration and distribution in some cases.
Telemedicine for Surgical Consultations -- Pandemic Response or Here to Stay? Int J Legal Med. John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF is a member of the following medical societies: American Gastroenterological Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Nephrology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Society of Nephrology, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary TractDisclosure: Nothing to disclose. Procedures, 2002
Most such injuries can be treated with supportive measures and simple interventional procedures such as tube thoracostomy. Spitz WU, Spitz DJ, eds. A study using data from the TraumaRegister of the German Trauma Society (N = 50,519) found obesity to have a negative impact on outcomes after blunt chest trauma (ie, increased duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit [ICU] stay, and hospital stay), though it did not document a comparable effect on mortality.
As such, it constitutes a major health care problem. J Heart Valve Dis. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. J Trauma. This chapter focuses on the cutaneous manifestations of blunt force injury. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
Other deaths resulting from blunt force trauma involve jumping or falling from heights, blast injuries, and being struck by a firm object, such as a fist, crowbar, bat, or ball. In this article, each particular injury and injury pattern resulting from blunt mechanisms is discussed. 2019 homicides. In other scenarios, particularly motor vehicle related fatalities with nonlethal injuries documented by routine autopsy, a posterior neck dissection may be required to document the cause of death. Am J Forensic Med Pathol.
Springfield, Ill: Charles C Thomas; 2006. Powder’s death was the second recorded in September, after Troy Boone was killed on Sept. 2. Blunt trauma commonly results in chest-wall injuries (eg, rib fractures). Here, experts explain why maternal suicide remains a silent issue. Qual Life Res. The role of routine chest radiography in initial evaluation of stable blunt trauma patients. [1] (See the following image.). For example, the cause of death of an individual who dies of pneumonia after being hospitalized for several days for treatment of blunt force injuries following a motor vehicle collision should be certified as "acute bronchopneumonia complicating blunt force injuries due to a motor vehicle accident." 117(2):82-9. Chung MH, Hsiao CY, Nian NS, Chen YC, Wang CY, Wen YS, et al. Cook AD, Klein JS, Rogers FB, Osler TM, Shackford SR. [Medline]. Salim A, Velmahos GC, Jindal A, Chan L, Vassiliu P, Belzberg H, et al. However, dating of blunt force injuries is an inexact science. Buschmann CT, Tsokos M. Frequent and rare complications of resuscitation attempts. 2020 Apr;46(2):329-335. doi: 10.1007/s00068-019-01273-4. Bite wounds and chop injuries may be considered variants of blunt force trauma, sharp force trauma, or a class of injuries untothemselves.
Epub 2019 Nov 26.
Spagnoli L, Amadasi A, Frustaci M, Mazzarelli D, Porta D, Cattaneo C. Characteristics and time-dependence of cut marks and blunt force fractures on costal cartilages: an experimental study. Blunt force trauma is routinely involved in cases classified as accidents, as well as in cases of suicide and homicide. Left atrial blood proceeds through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. [Medline]. In four cases, police withheld the cause of death.
2020; Accessed: September 21, 2020. [Medline]. Histologic examination is generally not as important as gross impressions in the evaluation of blunt force injuries. Share cases and questions with Physicians on Medscape consult. Can J Public Health. The lungs occupy most of the volume of each hemithorax.
Right ventricular contraction forces blood through the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary arteries. 2006 Jul. [Full Text]. DiMaio VJ, DiMaio D. Blunt trauma wounds and blunt trauma injuries of the trunk and extremities. The killing of Teresa Dejesus Esquivel-Robles was labelled a murder-suicide after she was found dead in a home in July. 2002 Mar. [SEE articles: Tutankhamun's death The Saga of Tutankhamen's Skull X-rays King Tut Not Murdered Violently, CT Scans Show. [Medline]. Robertson I, Hodge PR. Mean age of deceased patients was 61 years and 61% were male.
J Trauma. Endovascular stent grafting for the treatment of blunt thoracic aortic injury.
A prospective database study of all trauma patients admitted to an urban major trauma centre between January 2007 and December 2016 was conducted. The post-mortem concluded that the deaths of the Mynah birds were due to blunt trauma. In general, the more repair present, the older the wound. 1998 May. Kibbi A-G, Tannous Z, Kurban M, Bahhady RF, Harb DI. The bronchi continue to arborize to supply the pulmonary segments and subsegments. [Medline]. 2003 Apr. Medscape Drugs & Diseases from WebMD.
At this point, the spinal cord may be removed from the posterior aspect and examined for injury. 2nd ed. 2020 Jul 31. These injuries are often seen in combination with one another. Further, 2 time periods (2007-2012 and 2013-2016) were selected representing periods before and after implementation of haemostatic resuscitation and damage control procedures in our hospital to analyse cause of death into detail. These iatrogenic artifacts include oral contusions/lacerations resulting from intubation; skin and soft tissue hemorrhage resulting from intravascular catheter placement (see the image below); abrasions resulting from defibrillation; bladder mucosal hemorrhage resulting from the placement of Foley catheters; and rib fractures caused by compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The nerves that make up the brachial plexus also access the upper extremities via the thoracic outlet. 2019 Jan. 50 (1):96-100. In particular, chest trauma is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Zátopková L, Janík M, Urbanová P, Mottlová J, Hejna P. Forensic Sci Int. Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. The kinetic energy associated with a moving object is equal to one half the mass of that object multiplied by the velocity of the object squared (1/2 mv2). 332 (6):356-62. USA.gov. Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of traumatic rupture of the aorta. J Trauma. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. [Medline]. Epub 2009 Jan 14. One practical approach is to consider contusions acute or recent (if they are purple/red/blue and show no histologic repair) versus resolving (if they are yellow/green/brown/gray and show histologic repair). J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Depending on how sharp the weapon is, these may resemble either gaping lacerations or large cuts with marginal abrasion and are often associated with underlying fractures. Get the latest public health information from CDC: https://www.coronavirus.gov. Causes of death appearing to be blunt trauma. 2nd ed. Avulsion: A more severe form of laceration in which the soft tissues, musculature, and/or bone are torn away from the normal points of attachment (as seen in the image below). Gavant ML, Menke PG, Fabian T, Flick PA, Graney MJ, Gold RE. Histologically, dendritic melanocytes reside in the dermis creating an appearance similar to that of a blue nevus.
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Chest radiographs of limited utility in the diagnosis of blunt traumatic aortic laceration. HHS J Trauma. Deshpande A, Mossop P, Gurry J, Frydman G, Matalanis G, Walker P, et al. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 May. Overall, blunt thoracic injuries are directly responsible for 20-25% of all deaths, and chest trauma is a major contributor in another 50% of deaths. Brain injury; Cause of death; Exsanguination; Trauma. NLM Postmortem changes on the chest caused by insect activity. J Endovasc Ther. 1997 Apr. A total of 43 strangulation cases were found, of which there were equal numbers of ligature and manual strangulations (19 each) and 5 cases in which the method was not specified, and decedents were divided: 63% female and 37% male. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primarily … Minister for Agriculture Hon. The inner lining of the chest wall is the parietal pleura. In such scenarios, it is advisable to take photographs with a scaled ruler to help identify the object (see the images below). | In most cases of cutaneous and soft tissue injury, the histologic findings should be viewed as an adjunct to the gross impression. Anterior neck dissection demonstrating hemorrhage within several strap muscles. 2017 Mar. [Medline]. 1957. 1997 May. The thoracic duct arises primarily from the cisterna chyli in the abdomen. J Scott Denton, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria; Forensic Pathologist and Illinois Coroners’ Physician 2007 May. 2001 Dec. 51 (6):1049-53.
https://profreg.medscape.com/px/getpracticeprofile.do?method=getProfessionalProfile&urlCache=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVkaWNpbmUubWVkc2NhcGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDI4NzIzLW92ZXJ2aWV3, The use of thoracoscopy for the diagnosis and management of thoracic injuries will increase; the use of ultrasonography (US) for the diagnosis of conditions such as hemothorax and cardiac tamponade will become more widespread; spiral (helical) computed tomography (CT) techniques will be used more frequently for definitive diagnosis of major vascular lesions (eg, injuries to the thoracic aorta and its branches), Endovascular techniques for the repair of great-vessel injuries will be developed further and applied more frequently, Patient selection and nonsurgical therapies for delayed operative management of thoracic aortic rupture will be refined. Whereas nonspecific blunt force injuries provide no hint as to what may have caused them, a patterned abrasion or contusion recapitulates some features of the impacting object. Northfield, Ill: College of American Pathologists; 2003. Burlington, Mass: Elsevier; 2005. 15 (1):45. [Medline]. Find NCBI SARS-CoV-2 literature, sequence, and clinical content: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/. Blunt traumatic aortic rupture: detection with helical CT of the chest. People dying natural deaths often have minor blunt force injuries that do not contribute to death -- small abrasions or contusions on the skin are commonplace at autopsy. Blunt traumatic occult pneumothorax: is observation safe?--results of a prospective, AAST multicenter study. [Medline]. For the great majority of patients with blunt chest trauma, outcome and prognosis are excellent. J Trauma.
Insect activity often results in superficial, sharply demarcated, epidermal lesions on exposed surfaces of the body. As previously mentioned, the age of contusions and abrasions occur can only be determined in a general manner. Emerg Radiol. Mary C Mancini, MD, PhD, MMM Surgeon-in-Chief and Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christus Highland J Vasc Surg. There does seem to be some merit in using histology to date fractures, albeit the time frames suggested by histologic examination are general and are not specific to the hour, day, or week. Appropriate photographs vary according to the individual case and the individual pathologist. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: blunt chest trauma-suspected cardiac injury. Blunt force injury.
Child Abuse Negl. 2014 Mar 13;22:18. doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-22-18. [Medline]. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. Minister for Agriculture Hon. KLRT Little Rock. World J Surg. May 8, 2020; Accessed: September 18, 2020. Dogrul BN, Kiliccalan I, Asci ES, Peker SC. [Guideline] Galvagno SM Jr, Smith CE, Varon AJ, Hasenboehler EA, Sultan S, Shaefer G, et al. [Medline]. [Medline]. Documentation of the color of contusions may be as important as their configuration and distribution in some cases.
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Most such injuries can be treated with supportive measures and simple interventional procedures such as tube thoracostomy. Spitz WU, Spitz DJ, eds. A study using data from the TraumaRegister of the German Trauma Society (N = 50,519) found obesity to have a negative impact on outcomes after blunt chest trauma (ie, increased duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit [ICU] stay, and hospital stay), though it did not document a comparable effect on mortality.
As such, it constitutes a major health care problem. J Heart Valve Dis. Cause of death was reviewed by a panel of trauma surgeons. J Trauma. This chapter focuses on the cutaneous manifestations of blunt force injury. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
