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Treatment of a teenager who was injured by a grande launcher in enclosed space
- Authors: Okunev N.A.1, Okuneva A.I.1, Kalabkin N.A.1,2, Kopeikina A.A.1, Babaniyazov A.R.1
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Affiliations:
- National Research Mordovian State University
- Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, Saransk
- Issue: Vol 29, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 49-56
- Section: CASE REPORTS
- Submitted: 21.01.2024
- Accepted: 11.02.2025
- Published: 17.03.2025
- URL: https://jps-nmp.ru/jour/article/view/781
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/ps781
- ID: 781
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The performed work is on the front burner because of the increased intensity of terroristic acts with blasting devices directed to the civilian population. Besides, explosive injury is one of the damage to the population in wartime. The present article discusses the management of a teenager in the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital in Saransk (Russia) who was injured with a grenade launcher when he was in enclosed space.
CLINICAL CASE DESCRIPTION: Patient AA (17 y.o., male) was delivered to the hospital with a combined open craniocerebral injury, non-penetrating mine-explosive damage of the scalp, barotrauma, thermal lesion of the scalp and the left half of the face. He was injured by a RPG-18 grenade launcher found in the basement of a residential building. The shot was made inside the car.
CONCLUSION: To know the specific course of explosive injuries is necessary for correct diagnostics and management algorithm. In this particular case, the patient was discharged in 55 hospital days when he was recovering.
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Nicolai A. Okunev
National Research Mordovian State University
Email: nicolai.okunev@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8786-6998
SPIN-code: 9705-0818
MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine)
Россия, SaranskAleksandra I. Okuneva
National Research Mordovian State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: toropkinaokuneva@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7182-2197
SPIN-code: 9726-0748
MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine)
Россия, SaranskNikolai A. Kalabkin
National Research Mordovian State University; Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, Saransk
Email: kalabkin-1990@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6916-9766
SPIN-code: 7835-2880
MD
Россия, Saransk; SaranskAnastasia A. Kopeikina
National Research Mordovian State University
Email: kopeykina.ananas1397@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8831-0895
Россия, Saransk
Agajan R. Babaniyazov
National Research Mordovian State University
Email: a.babaniyazow1999@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3158-8233
MD
Россия, SaranskReferences
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