Successful anesthetic management of a massive thoracoabdominal impalement injury

Abstract

We describe the management, focusing on the anesthetic preparedness, of a 44-year-old man who presented with impalement of a 1 m long serrated rod through the right supraclavicular fossa extending up to the right iliac fossa, along with rib fractures and laceration of the liver and diaphragm.

Keywords

• abdominal injury
• accident
• hemodynamic stability
• laceration
• occupational injury
• thoracic injury