A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system
In certain circumstances, invasive procedures such as creation of a surgical airway, insertion of a chest drain, intraosseous puncture, or amputation in the field are necessary. These invasive procedures can save lives. However, emergency medical service teams cannot perform such procedures accordin...
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| author | Byungchul Yu Gil Jae Lee Min A Lee Kang Kook Choi Jihun Gwak Youngeun Park Yong-Cheol Yoon Jayun Cho Seung Hwan Lee Jungnam Lee |
| author_facet | Byungchul Yu Gil Jae Lee Min A Lee Kang Kook Choi Jihun Gwak Youngeun Park Yong-Cheol Yoon Jayun Cho Seung Hwan Lee Jungnam Lee |
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| description | In certain circumstances, invasive procedures such as creation of a surgical airway, insertion of a chest drain, intraosseous puncture, or amputation in the field are necessary. These invasive procedures can save lives. However, emergency medical service teams cannot perform such procedures according to the law in Korea. The upper arm of a 29-year-old male patient was stuck in a huge machine and the emergency medical service team could not rescue the patient. A doctor-car team was dispatched to the scene and the team performed the filed amputation to extricate the patient. He was brought to the trauma center immediately and underwent formal above-elbow amputation. Here we describe a case of field amputation to rescue a patient through a “doctor car” system, along with a literature review. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e95a39f7c4764aadb1d6ea333c720c872025-01-16T04:51:18ZengKorean Society of TraumatologyJournal of Trauma and Injury2799-43172287-16832022-08-0135Suppl 1S27S3010.20408/jti.2022.00121129A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" systemByungchul Yu0Gil Jae Lee1Min A Lee2Kang Kook Choi3Jihun Gwak4Youngeun Park5Yong-Cheol Yoon6Jayun Cho7Seung Hwan Lee8Jungnam Lee9 Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, KoreaIn certain circumstances, invasive procedures such as creation of a surgical airway, insertion of a chest drain, intraosseous puncture, or amputation in the field are necessary. These invasive procedures can save lives. However, emergency medical service teams cannot perform such procedures according to the law in Korea. The upper arm of a 29-year-old male patient was stuck in a huge machine and the emergency medical service team could not rescue the patient. A doctor-car team was dispatched to the scene and the team performed the filed amputation to extricate the patient. He was brought to the trauma center immediately and underwent formal above-elbow amputation. Here we describe a case of field amputation to rescue a patient through a “doctor car” system, along with a literature review.http://jtraumainj.org/upload/pdf/jti-2022-0012.pdfamputationemergency medical servicestrauma centerscase reports |
| spellingShingle | Byungchul Yu Gil Jae Lee Min A Lee Kang Kook Choi Jihun Gwak Youngeun Park Yong-Cheol Yoon Jayun Cho Seung Hwan Lee Jungnam Lee A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system Journal of Trauma and Injury amputation emergency medical services trauma centers case reports |
| title | A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system |
| title_full | A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system |
| title_fullStr | A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system |
| title_full_unstemmed | A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system |
| title_short | A case report of field amputation: the rescue of an entrapped patient through the "doctor car" system |
| title_sort | case report of field amputation the rescue of an entrapped patient through the doctor car system |
| topic | amputation emergency medical services trauma centers case reports |
| url | http://jtraumainj.org/upload/pdf/jti-2022-0012.pdf |
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