Unexpected severe intra-abdominal injuries resulting from a ground-level fall in an elderly patient with a large staghorn calculus - Lightfoot A, Chan J.

A 70-year-old woman on warfarin was transported to the emergency department after a ground-level fall, injuring her left backside. Criteria for geriatric trauma activation was not met. An episode of haematuria created suspicion for an intra-abdominal injur...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news