Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report
High-pressure injection gun (Grease-gun) injuries mainly occur with industrial labourers. Injuries associated with high pressure grease guns are very rare and frequently involve the hand and chest. The non-dominant hand is generally injured since the grease gun is usually held in the dominant hand....
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| author | Oguz Eroglu Elif Sari Sevilay Vural Figen Coskun |
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| description | High-pressure injection gun (Grease-gun) injuries mainly occur with industrial labourers. Injuries associated with high pressure grease guns are very rare and frequently involve the hand and chest. The non-dominant hand is generally injured since the grease gun is usually held in the dominant hand. Even if high-pressure injection injury causes only a small lesion in the skin, it is still characterized by severe damage to subcutaneous tissue. Since initial presentation may be deceptive, treatment is frequently delayed. The characteristics of the material injected need to be known as a priority, and systemic intoxication must be ruled out. The risk of amputation is 16-55%. With solvents it goes up to 50-80%. Surgical treatment must be performed immediately, under general anesthesia or plexus block. Foreign material and necrotic tissue must be early debrided with wide microsurgical exploration. Positive outcomes in reacquisition of hand functions can be obtained with long-term and early physiotherapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-36006a06666e4d22bdcc37881f20ac8a2022-12-22T01:34:11ZengThe Pan African Medical JournalThe Pan African Medical Journal1937-86881937-86882015-01-01204010.11604/pamj.2015.20.40.58925892Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case reportOguz Eroglu0Elif Sari1Sevilay Vural2Figen Coskun3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kirikkale, Turkey Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kirikkale, Turkey Department of Emergency Medicine Bartin State Hospital,Bartin,Turkey Department of Emergency Medicine, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kirikkale, Turkey High-pressure injection gun (Grease-gun) injuries mainly occur with industrial labourers. Injuries associated with high pressure grease guns are very rare and frequently involve the hand and chest. The non-dominant hand is generally injured since the grease gun is usually held in the dominant hand. Even if high-pressure injection injury causes only a small lesion in the skin, it is still characterized by severe damage to subcutaneous tissue. Since initial presentation may be deceptive, treatment is frequently delayed. The characteristics of the material injected need to be known as a priority, and systemic intoxication must be ruled out. The risk of amputation is 16-55%. With solvents it goes up to 50-80%. Surgical treatment must be performed immediately, under general anesthesia or plexus block. Foreign material and necrotic tissue must be early debrided with wide microsurgical exploration. Positive outcomes in reacquisition of hand functions can be obtained with long-term and early physiotherapy. https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/20/40/pdf/40.pdf grease-gunfirearm injuriesamputation |
| spellingShingle | Oguz Eroglu Elif Sari Sevilay Vural Figen Coskun Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report The Pan African Medical Journal grease-gun firearm injuries amputation |
| title | Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report |
| title_full | Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report |
| title_fullStr | Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report |
| title_short | Warning: this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries;“grease-gun injury”: a case report |
| title_sort | warning this may be as dangerous as firearm injuries grease gun injury a case report |
| topic | grease-gun firearm injuries amputation |
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