Breaking the rules: a thoracic impalement injury.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
In the case of a patient with an impalement injury, the object should be removed in a controlled operating theatre environment. We report an 18-year-old man for whom this rule could not be followed. He was removed from a metal pipe transfixing his chest at the roadside.