[A case of multiple trauma with sinking skull, whose life was saved by consistent team medical treatment].
A 54 year old man was brought to our hospital by ambulance. He had been injured by falling heavy steel. An examination was performed, and he was diag nosed as having sinking skull, acute extradural hematoma, trauma of the righ eye, right eye laceration, injury of the optic canal (right blind), and multipl fractures. Open fractures were observed in the right ring finger and little finger Simple fractures were observed in the zygomatic bone nasal bone and maxillary bone. An emergency operation (external skeletal fixation, taxis of the skull and maxillary bone, extradural hematoma depletion, suture of right eyelid) was performed. His life was saved by consistent team treatment from preoperation t postoperation. He was discharged from our hospital on foot at 45 days after th operation.
Iwata
Teruo
T
Division of Emergent and Critical Care of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan.
Iwamoto
Kensou
K
Miyazaki
Yuuya
Y
Harayama
Nobuya
N
Nagato
Masaru
M
Nihei
Syunichi
S
Tanigawa
Takahisa
T
Aibara
Keiji
K
Kamochi
Masayuki
M
Nakano
Yoshiteru
Y
Sozen
Takumi
T
Nishizawa
Shigeru
S
D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D020204:Skull Fracture, Depressed / Q000628:therapy*