WHY?

Traumatiac amputation  - (+) Heroin / Car accident

Camel Trauma

One of our patients was assaulted by a camel.  It was unclear if this was the one or two hump variety.  What was clear is that an angry camel can break several bones!

Robots!!!!

I got the chance to go down to Tampa to learn how to assist with Robotic surgery. We got to learn on pigs.

Brothers

I like this picture from the Badlands

The Magic Samurai Sword

This patient was stabbed on the L chest by a 3ft Samurai Sword and had a pneumothorax on the R side.  How is that possible?

Evacuating a Clot

I was able to reach my entire forearm into this defect to evacuate a hematoma that had developed and spontaneously ruptured after the skin broke down.

Infected Fingers

Jack Frost Nipping at Your Toes!

Frostbite.

Scalp degloving from pit bull

Abdominal stab wound

Finger amputation

The eyes have it

Pneumopericardium

Pneumopericardium
This picture is of a patient with traumatic pneumopericardium after blunt chest trauma.
You can see the air collected in the pericardial sac.

There is so much air that it is actually displacing the heart back toward the back and is compressing the heart.  The patient actually had some low blood pressure as a result of this condition.  We (cardiology) got a catheter placed and it remained in place for over a week until we were sure it would not reaccumulate.

The Image below is a "normal" chest CT for comparison.

Can you find the problem here?

Hint: look at the lungs.

Pelvis Fractures

This is one of the most dramatic pelvis fractures I have seen.