title: A Challenging Penetrating Trauma Case.
abstract: We present the prehospital management of a 23-year-old Australian Aboriginal man with an isolated knife stab wound to the posterior right chest. The lead author attended to the prehospital management of this young man during tenure as a registrar in retrieval medicine for CareFlight Medical Services (CMS) in North Queensland, Australia. The case is noteworthy because it involved a combination of a life-threatening injury with a superimposed iatrogenic injury. The case will be of interest to physicians and clinicians in prehospital medicine as well as those in low-volume emergency departments or facilities in which major trauma may present infrequently.
authors.affiliation: Specialty Registrar, Careflight Medical Services, Queensland, Australia. Electronic address: seetalsnoek@yahoo.co.uk.
authors.forename: Seetal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Snoek
authors.affiliation: Consultant Emergency Physician, Careflight Medical Services, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Butson
authors.affiliation: Essex and Herts. Air Ambulance (c/o London HEMS).
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wittenberg
mesh_terms: D017732:Air Ambulances; D004322:Drainage; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult