[PHISH] Re: PELVIC GSW

[Ronald Simon]

I thought rectal washouts were out along with the presacral drain?
ron simon

Ronald Gross wrote:
> Looks to me like a rectal/rectosigmoid wound.  I would explore, do a
> rigid sig in the OR, localize the injury, and do a colostomy and
> hartmanns with rectal washout.
>
> What did you do, and how did he do?
>
> Ron
> Ronald I. Gross, MD, FACS
> Associate Director of Traumatology
> Hartford Hospital
> Chair, ACS CT Committee on Trauma
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>   
>>>> "Fernando Aguilar" <draguilarrevelo at gmail.com> 05/23/07 7:10 PM >>>
>>>>         
> I would like to hear your approach to the following case:
> Male, 32, gunshot wound to left lateral inferior flank (see picture 01),
> no
> exit wound, arrive ER 20 min. after injury.  BP: 120/75, P: 90, SatO2:
> 98%,
> no cristalloids given.
> Abdomen tender in lower quadrants. FAST Neg.  Rectal: normotonic, feces
> with
> little blood.  Pulses: OK.
> Abdominopelvic x-ray taken (see picture 02)
> CAT Scan shown (pictures 03, 04, 05)
>
> My hospital is a General Hospital and is one of the 3 mayor hospital at
> my
> country.  We manage all trauma patients.
>
> Dr. Fernando Aguilar
> General Surgeon
> Calderon Guardia General Hospital
> San José, Costa Rica
>
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