Survival Fight of a Teen With Polytrauma, Severe Head Injury, Gr-V Liver Injury Followed By ARDS, Managed in a Rural Hospital of Andaman, India: Perseverance Gives Possibilities Even With Limited Resources
{"title":"Survival Fight of a Teen With Polytrauma, Severe Head Injury, Gr-V Liver Injury Followed By ARDS, Managed in a Rural Hospital of Andaman, India: Perseverance Gives Possibilities Even With Limited Resources","authors":"Sidharth Bhasin, A. Narayan, C. Janardhan","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2017070104","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thisarticledescribeshowtheliverisoneofthemostcommonlyinjuredorgansintheabdomen, especially in road traffic accidents. Patients do present with polytrauma and those who are hemodynamicallyunstablehaveahighmorbidityandmortality,eveninadvancedhospitalsettings. Followingisthecasereportofa17-yr.oldboy,whowasinvolvedinaroadtrafficaccidentwith polytrauma,presentedtoatertiarycarehospitalinaremoteisland,withGradeIV-Vliverinjuryand developedARDSinpost-operativeperiod.Thepatientwasmanagedsuccessfullyanddischarged. KEyWoRDS Andaman, ARDS, Grade V liver injury, India, Polytrauma, RTA","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2017070104","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}