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gastric tube) which will lessen artefactual marks on the bul­let. This will help at the time of ballistic identication so as not to obscure potential class or specic gun marks left on the bullet. The bullet must be properly sealed, labelled and dated with the site of retrieval indicated and names of treat­ing physician specied. All bullets must be packed separately.
27.1.2 External Ballistics
This describes the travel of the projectile outside of the barrel through the air or a different medium, on its way to the tar­get. Bullets are inherently unstable, as most of the mass lies at the rear of the bullet. The bullet spirals because of the riing of the barrel, and the instability can be characterised as:
1. Yaw: Rocking from side to side. Yawing represents deviation of the bullet in its longi-
tudinal axis, making the projectile unstable. As the bullet travels, it may start to tumble.
2. Tumbling: The bullet tumbles in ight. Tumbling represents forward rotation around the cen-
tre of the mass resulting in a greater surface area on impact. The more unstable the bullet is, the greater the tissue destruction.
3. Nutation and precision: The tip (leading edge of the bul-
let) rocks in a spiral fashion.
The bullet also has precision and nutation movements
along the horizontal axis.
The severity and extent of injuries resulting on the body at
point of impact depends on a number of factors which include:
1. The velocity of the bullet on impact and the velocity on exit. The greater the retardation, the more energy has been transferred.
2. The range from which the shot was red (bullets slow down with distance).
A high-velocity round red from a longer distance
may result in a low-energy wound.
3. The type of missile or bullet used.
Bullets can be designed to mushroom or open on impact to increase their cross-sectional area and therefore retardation.
4. The area of the body hit (see Fig.27.2).
5. The number of bullets.
6. Whether there was any intermediary object in the way, e.g. protection, car door, etc.
7. Whether the bullet was stable or unstable at time of impact:
Did it go straight through, was it tumbling, etc?
8. The presence of underlying natural pathology and state of health.
27.1.3 Terminal Ballistics
The effect and movement of the bullets at point of impact is referred to as terminal ballistics. If the track of the bullet is at precisely 90 ° to the surface of the target (body), the bullet tip may enter cleanly. However, if the bullet is tumbling, it pres­ents a much greater surface area, with greater retardation of velocity and transfer of greater energy to the tissue.
27.1.4 Wound Ballistics
The injuries that result from bullet wounds are known as wound ballistics. This is the clinician’s actual point of care, which can only be competently exercised if there is an under­standing of the potential injuries, also based on the type of weapon, the energy of the projectile and the nature of the bullet itself. It is no longer appropriate to talk of ‘high­velocity’ and ‘low-velocity’ injury. Injuries are better classi­ed into ‘high-energy injuries’ and ‘low-energy injuries’.
Fig. 27.2 Handgun bullet designed to open on impact and increase its cross-sectional area, often used for self-defence
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Fig. 27.3 Cavitation in a high-energy bullet showing the shock wave and temporary cavity
27.1.5 Cavitation
When a bullet travels through tissue, it is associated with a shock wave in advance of the bullet. The shock wave drives the tissues away from the bullet, resulting in a cavity which has a high negative pressure. The movement is dynamic, and behind the bullet, the cavity the vacuum created has the effect of sucking external debris, clothing, etc., into the wound. The shock wave travels furthest and fastest in dense tissue such as the liver and brain, and least damage occurs in air-lled cavities like the lung (Fig.27.3).
The nal tissue damage represents a combination of the
following features:
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27.2.1 Thought Processes
• Always think trajectory: this will assist you in consider-
ing possible tissues and organs that may have been dam­aged by the bullet. While bullets do not always travel in straight lines, unless they hit a tissue like the bone, the path between the bullet markers will provide a good guide.
• Always use bullet wound markers: a simple paper clip
attached to wounds will assist you in interpreting the tra­jectory with assistance of basic radiology (develop a sys­tem in your unit for anterior vs posterior wounds, e.g. open paper clips for the former and closed paper clips for the latter). Vitamin E tablets can also be used. Do not use ECG ‘dot’ as these may be confused with bullet frag­ments (Fig.27.4).
• Always count the number of bullet wounds. Wounds will
generally be even numbered if the bullet has passed through (i.e. an entrance and an exit). A single or odd number of wounds implies a retained bullet (Fig.27.5).
• The permanent cavitation from the bullet as it tracks through the tissues.
• The temporary cavitation by the shock wave effect of the bullet especially present in high-energy missiles. This will cause damage further away from the direct path of the bullet. It may also suck in bacteria and other surround­ing foreign material into the deeper tissues.
Note that because the cavity is temporary, it is not seen
clinically, and the amount of soft tissue damage is com­monly underappreciated.
• Impact of secondary fragment such as bone, glass and break-up of the missile itself.
27.2 Initial Management ofGunshot
Wounds
All normal principles of major trauma management apply, using ATLS® principles.
Fig. 27.4 Chest X-ray showing the use of bullet markers (paper clips)—high suspicion of liver injury
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Unless there is one GSW (gunshot wound) and a single
retained bullet, you must refrain from clinically commit­ting to an entrance versus an exit wound. Rather, describe the wounds without labelling them as entrance and exit wounds.
Fig. 27.5 Multiple gunshot wounds
• Always obtain X-rays based on the above ‘hole count’, and if there is a ‘mismatch’ between holes and bullets, X-ray the whole body as widely as necessary to exclude remote injury.
• Have a high index of suspicion for ‘silent’ associated injuries, e.g. GSW involving the anterior portion of the thoracic or cervical spine must imply oesophageal injury till proven otherwise.
• Plain X-rays are most accurate for identifying missile debris.
• CT scans may miss small pellets or fragments unless very ne cuts are used. CT scans should be used in haemody­namically stable patients only.
• Deal with the wound and not the type of rearm used (Fig.27.6a, b).
27.2.2 Shotgun Injury
A shotgun res multiple balls, 2–4mm in diameter. These are contained in a plastic cup inside the shotgun round. The shotgun has a smooth barrel, and the effect is that the pellets spread out, hitting a much larger area of the torso. Most balls,
Fig. 27.6 (a) Abdominal gunshot with omentum protruding. (b) Underlying bowel injury
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Fig. 27.7 Shotgun cartridge showing plastic insert containing pellets and one removed from a victim
if they penetrate, will stop inside the body. The plastic ‘wad­ding’ which drives the pellets is radiolucent and must be looked for and removed (Fig.27.7).
Ultrasound location may be helpful. Retained wads are a
signicant source of sepsis.
• Do not remove individual pellets unless they are in close proximity to a vital structure. There is a greater likelihood of surgical damage to overlying normal tissue when try­ing to nd the pellet.
• Holes in the bowel can be oversewn.
Always X-ray the entire body. An ectopic pellet may have embolised remotely. The hole in the blood vessel for it to get there must be anticipated and repaired.
Always look for the plastic cup/wad, which is radiolucent. A>1cm round hole on the skin is highly suggestive of its presence. It should be looked for and removed.
• Shotgun injuries of the abdomen with multiple holes in the bowel require a methodical approach. All bleeding vessels should be ligated. All bowel holes should be closed primarily. Treat such injuries as requiring a manda­tory relook laparotomy, since it is extremely easy to miss
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holes, and relooking is helpful. Pass the bowel through a bowl lled with warm water. Bubbles are highly sugges­tive of a perforation of the bowel.
• A relook laparotomy at about 24–36h, with reinspection of the bowel, is very useful as extra holes may be picked up.
27.3 Denitive Care
• Low-energy wounds can be cleaned in the absence of injury to vital structures.
• Use copious wound irrigation with warmed lactated Ringer’s solution
• Except for the face, do not suture bullet wounds of the skin. Simply trim skin tags and use a local dressing with an antibiotic ointment, e.g. chloramphenicol or bacitra­cin. The wound should be dressed, but will drain uid, rather than develop a retained haematoma.
• In stable patients, the small bowel can be closed primar­ily. Large bowel injuries can be closed primarily if less than 6h old and with limited contamination. Protective stomas are not usually necessary. However, in the unsta­ble patient, principles of damage control apply.
• For solid organs, haemostasis with simple packing and limited resection may be all that is required. Spleen and kidney injuries may be most safely treated with splenec­tomy or nephrectomy.
• High-energy wounds require extensive debridement to remove dead tissue. Where necessary, principles of dam­age control apply.
• Have an extremely high index for compartment syndrome in abdominal and extremity wounds. Early or prophylac­tic decompression with a fasciotomy should be performed.
• Antibiotic prophylaxis and wound care are required to minimise the risk of infection. Gram-positive cover, espe­cially for Clostridium sp., Staphylococcus and microaero­philic Streptococcus may be required. A penicillin or cephalosporin is commonly used (Fig.27.8).
27.3.1 Removal ofBullets
The decision to remove a bullet should be balanced with the risks of the procedure. The fear of lead poisoning due to bul­lets left in situ is not a major clinical problem.
Bullets that are clinically palpable, are in close proximity
to major vessels or nerves or are lodged in major joints should be removed as they impact on quality of life.
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Fig. 27.8 Liver injury showing typical stellate appearance from shock wave
27.4 Forensic Considerations
Forensic evidence needed is by the police, irrespective of whether the patient survives or dies. The correct handling and bagging of bullets, or fragments, will ensure a chain of custody that is accurate and dependable for the courts to be able to use the evidence with condence. It is therefore criti­cal to hand over and document to whom the bullet was handed over, and this should be maintained and conrmed until the ballistic tests are done.
Gunshot wound appearances of entrance and exit gunshot wounds are for the most part different. The gunshot wounds of entrance are typically round to oval, have a collar of abrasion and may show close proximity gunshot residue (see Fig.27.4). The sizes of the entrance wounds tend to be smaller than the exit gunshot wounds; unfortunately, this is not always true (Fig.27.9). Do not attempt to ‘second-guess’ the forensic pathologist.
The precise number and nature of the wounds should be documented and, if possible, photographed. It is often not possible, particularly with lower-energy wounds, to say with certainty, whether a wound is an entrance wound or an exit wound. This should be left to experts in the eld.
Remember that there may be gunshot residue on the clothes, hands or body of the patient. The residue is what comes out of the barrel with the bullet. It comprises ames, soot, burnt and unburnt propellant, primer and oil. All rele­vant clothing should be handed over to the police or foren­sics for further evaluation.
27.5 Conclusion
Firearm injuries may cause complex injuries. Appreciating ballistics offers a grounded approach to the management of these cases. An unstable patient may be managed on clinical
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Fig. 27.9 Oval-shaped entrance wound showing central defect and collar of abrasion
suspicion of the suspected trajectory and basic radiology if time permits. Even in emergency cases, a focused assess­ment may guide with surgical approach in theatre. More elaborate examination should be ordered in stable patients as the suspected injuries permit. Match the wound with the bul­let and expect an even number unless the wound is obviously tangential. Treat the wound and the injuries and not the re­arm involved.
Important Points
• Bullets do not always travel in straight lines; they can ricochet off the bone.
• Always use skin markers. If the injuries are not in a rela­tively straight line, or is there a bone chip in the tract, has the bullet ricocheted off a piece of bone, e.g. a vertebral body?
• Bullets do not always stay intact. They can break up, and each part can cause separate injury.
• Previous retained bullets may confuse the current clinical presentations.
• Failure to examine the perineum and the axilla may add to the confusion in clinical interpretation.
• Mismatching wounds when dealing with multiple GSW may lead to missed injuries (see Fig.27.5).
• Failure to remove slug/wad in close-range shotgun injuries.
• Failure to debride the exit wound especially when bullet has perforated hollow viscus especially the large bowel and rectum.
• Failure to appreciate shock wave effect on surrounding structures with tissue damage The author has seen a splenic rupture from an iliac arterial injury, with the shock wave transmitted up to the spleen via the aorta and splenic artery.
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from combat neck injury. J Trauma. 2012;72:969–74.
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tomic placement of gunshot wounds. J Trauma. 2008;64:197–203.
Glasgow S, Stee S, Duncan S, Rusmussen T.Epidemiology of modern
battleeld colorectal trauma: a review of 977 coalition casualties. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012;73:S503–8.
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Part II
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Surgical Strategies in Penetrating Trauma to Head,
Face, and Neck
Surgical Strategies inTrauma
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TobyP.Keeney-Bonthrone, RachelM.Russo, JessieM.Ho, andHasanB.Alam
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In the United States, penetrating trauma remains a nation­wide burden with the incidence of patients with penetrating injuries rising in nearly every state. As many as 54% of severely injured patients are initially managed at a non­trauma center, with many examples of patients with penetrat­ing trauma self-presenting following episodes of mass violence. The outcome for these patients can be inuenced by providers that know what to do and hospitals that are pre­pared. Prompt control of bleeding and intra-abdominal con­tamination combined with goal-directed resuscitation reduces morbidity and mortality. Because every minute saved between time of injury and incision in the operating room (OR) gives the surgical team additional time to nd and repair any injury, optimal surgical strategies for penetrat­ing trauma start prior to incision. This chapter will outline the surgical strategies in trauma, starting with proper prepa­ration and will highlight common errors and inefciencies that can delay appropriate care.
We will focus on the following steps of surgical strategies
in trauma:
1. Preparation for trauma activations
2. Avoiding pitfalls in the initial assessment
3. Initial resuscitation strategies
4. Choosing damage control surgery vs. denitive repair
5. Keys to performing damage control surgery
6. Future advances in surgical strategies in trauma
T. P. Keeney-Bonthrone (*) Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA e-mail: dhc@ohsu.edu
R. M. Russo Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
J. W. Ho · H. B. Alam Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA e-mail: hasan.alam@nm.org
28.1 Preparation forTrauma Activations
Optimal care of the penetrating trauma patient requires numerous resources across the trauma system, incorporating prehospital personnel, emergency department personnel, and an array of multidisciplinary inpatient providers. However, the initial stabilization of an injured patient can be accom­plished at any-sized facility. In large centers, a trauma team may encompass numerous specialists and subspecialists. Removing extraneous personnel from the resuscitation bay may be necessary to control crowds and manage noise. In rural hospitals in contrast, a trauma team may consist of one physician and one nurse who might enlist the help of ancil­lary personnel to manage critically ill or multiple patients.
Regardless of the setting, effective and efcient communi-
cation and teamwork among clinicians and staff is essential to deliver the best care. A trauma team must have a clearly des­ignated leader who determines the management plan, priori­ties, and task assignments. When possible, the team leader should avoid performing procedures, in order to maintain situational awareness and focus on supervisory responsibili­ties as the patient’s condition evolves. A pre- brieng is help­ful to delineate roles and ensure the availability of essential resources (e.g., blood, sedation, procedural supplies). Breakdown in team dynamics and medical mismanagement typically results from one of four common problems:
1. Communication breakdown—a lack of closed-loop com-
munication results in ineffective communication between the team leader and those providing bedside care. The priority of tasks is not conveyed.
2. Failure of situational awareness—the team leader fails to
recognize shock and anticipate blood transfusion needs or delays the initiation of patient transfer.
3. Inadequate stafng or problems with workload distribu-
tion—bedside providers become task-saturated by numerous to-dos with no clear prioritization of tasks or an inadequate number of staff for the task load/patient volume. Staff are inadequately trained to perform the
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assigned task or have not maintained infrequently used skills.
4. Unresolved conicts—interpersonal conict, disagree­ment about management, a lack of clear leadership, or unresolved hostility about other team members’ per­ceived inadequate performance.
Avoiding these common problems in patient care requires improvement in team dynamics that can only come with rehearsal and reection. While large, level 1 trauma centers may be well-versed in trauma activations for penetrating injury, many hospitals experience a much lower volume of penetrating trauma and are focused on maintaining basic competencies for trauma care. For these centers, preparation is paramount since care teams cannot rely on extensive experience to improvise care in unexpected situations. This preparation occurs both at the organizational and at the indi­vidual level. All stakeholders across multiple departments (e.g., surgery, anesthesia, emergency department) and sup­port functions (e.g., operating room, radiology, blood bank, pharmacy) should participate in the formation of plans, tabletop exercises, and/or simulations. Improving opera­tional workow ensures that patients receive the resuscita­tive and operative interventions they require in the timeliest manner. Specic examples of organizational-level processes that can be examined for workow optimization can be found in Table28.1.
While the focus of institutional level improvement is ef­cient movement of the patient through the system, the focus of individual level improvement is in fostering staff excel­lence during any steps that can cause friction. Areas of inter­est include seemingly simple procedures that can bog down patient care such as IV placement in unstable patients, com­plex nursing procedures such as massive transfusion, as well as multidisciplinary skills-based efforts such as OR prepara­tion and preparing patients for interfacility transfer. Signicant treatment delays may result if these tasks are executed inefciently. An example of a procedure that can be targeted for optimization can be found in Fig.28.1.
Working routinely with surgical and nonsurgical col­leagues to rehearse trauma scenarios can optimize trauma care even in environments where penetrating trauma is rela­tively rare. The hallmarks of a good trauma surgeon are well­developed leadership skills executed under pressure. Such leadership takes time to develop, and these skills may not be part of routine general surgery training. Practice is essential. Errors and inefciencies are bound to happen, so a healthy after-action review culture that focuses on opportunities for future process improvements is essential. Some benecial courses are offered to help hone these skills, including the internationally offered Denitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) and Denitive Anesthesia Trauma Care (DATC) courses run by the International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care.
Table 28.1 Key aspects of trauma patient workow
Setting Stakeholders involved
Consistent radio communication of key decision- making parameters by EMS to ED
Consistent, timely paging of all applicable non-ED staff when trauma activation occurs
Timely mass casualty activation procedures with up-to-date rosters Hospital ED, hospital administration, trauma Standardized handoffs by EMS to ED Trauma bay EMS, ED, trauma Clear trauma activation responsibilities that account for frequent staff
turnover due to shift/call changes Clear chain of command when expected attending(s) are unavailable
(e.g., still in OR due to previous trauma activation) Optimizing trauma OR turnaround OR OR administration, OR staff, anesthesia,
Clear backup OR and “backup for backup” OR procedures as well as external transfer processes for mass casualty situations
Optimizing transportation routes to OR Hospital OR administration, patient transportation Sufcient, well-stocked surgical trays OR OR administration, OR staff, trauma Intraoperative communication OR OR staff, anesthesia, trauma Primary-to-consultant comms in OR OR Trauma, consultants (esp. orthopedics,
Optimizing transportation routes to IR suite OR OR administration, IR management, patient
OR turnaround time OR OR administration, OR staff SICU handoff procedures SICU Trauma, SICU Reoperation procedures for SICU patients SICU/OR OR administration, OR front desk, SICU,
Family-centered rounds for unresponsive/sedated patients to encourage realistic decision-making
Prehospital EMS, ED, trauma
ED ED, trauma
Trauma bay ED, trauma, OR front desk
Trauma bay ED, trauma
trauma
OR OR administration, OR staff, hospital
administration, anesthesia, trauma
neurosurgery, IR, urology)
transportation
trauma
SICU Trauma, SICU
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Patient deemed
unstable on ED arrival
Place bilateral
16ga IVs in
antecubital
fossa
If 2 failed
attempts or
no access
within 90
seconds
Place bilateral
IOs in
humeral head
Place central line
in SICU/OR
Fig. 28.1 Simplied access algorithm for unstable penetrating trauma patients
Successful
PIV
placement
x2
28.2 Avoiding Pitfalls intheInitial Assessment
Prior to patient arrival, whenever possible, emergency medi­cal services (EMS) should notify the receiving hospital that a trauma patient is en route. Included information regarding the patient’s estimated age, sex, mechanism of injury, and vital signs should be standardized because it can aid in prep­aration for the patient’s arrival. Trauma responders should be notied to ensure adequate resources are available and an operating room can be readied quickly if needed. Emergency department staff should prepare for additional procedures (e.g., intubation, tube thoracostomy), and nursing staff should work with the blood bank to prepare for massive transfusion of uncross-matched type O blood. All staff should follow universal precautions against blood-borne and respiratory-borne illnesses.
A clear and organized approach is required for manag­ing the patient with penetrating injury. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) provides an outline for a standard approach to trauma care that has been adopted around the world. The initial patient assessment is divided into the primary and secondary survey. The primary survey is
designed to quickly identify life-threatening injuries and provide immediate life- saving interventions. The Airway­Breathing-Circulation mnemonic simplies priorities and keeps the trauma team focused on a systematic approach to patient care. However, since uncontrolled hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable deaths from traumatic injuries, some have suggested the mnemonic be altered to Circulation-Airway-Breathing to reect hemorrhage con­trol as the number one priority. In many centers with mul­tiple capable clinicians present, the team will be able to concurrently address these problems. The secondary sur­vey includes a detailed history and physical (when the patient’s condition permits) and targeted diagnostic stud­ies to detect other injuries. Patients with penetrating injury most commonly receive a chest X-ray and abdominal X-ray to identify injuries and missiles. Ultrasound may also be helpful for patients with suspected cardiac injury or pneumothorax. More details regarding the use of imag­ing for patients with penetrating injury can be found in Chaps. 17, 18, and 19.
Clinicians at hospitals with limited resources for trauma management should contact the nearest trauma center for transfer as soon as it becomes apparent that a patient has sustained injuries beyond the management capacity of their hospital. While a thorough evaluation and initial stabilization in accordance with ATLS principles is desired prior to transfer, it cannot be overemphasized that transfer should not be delayed to obtain a complete workup.
Pitfalls in the initial assessment:
Airway: Dened intubation criteria in trauma do not exist. In general, it is wise to intubate patients early, prior to the onset of respiratory failure. Intubation is often consid­ered when patients present with severe brain injury with a GCS less than 8, injuries to the face and neck that may lead to airway obstruction from signicant edema, those with severe pulmonary contusion at risk for hypoxic respiratory failure, hemodynamically unstable patients, and patients who may require signicant pain management or sedation to facilitate further workup or interfacility transfer. There is not a rush to intubate patients that are otherwise able to maintain a patent airway with adequate oxygenation and ventilation using other means. Esophageal or right mainstem intubation is common during emergency intubation. Always verify tube position with capnography and secure endotracheal tubes once in position. Unintended extubation is the most common preventable cause of morbidity in trauma patients in mature trauma centers. Cardiovascular collapse on induction is another signicant risk in this patient population. Ensure adequate resuscitation prior to rapid sequence induction, and use short-acting, non-vasodilatory drugs such as etomidate or ketamine paired with succinylcholine or rocuronium. More information on intubation of patients with penetrating trauma can be found in Chap. 2.