Citation

Delavar B, Thompson MA. J. Emerg. Med. 2021; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jemermed.2021.07.071

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A 22-year-old man presented to the emergency department after a taser injury. The patient was in an altercation with law enforcement when he received a taser shot to his forehead from approximately 6 feet away (Figures 1 and 2). The patient reported a headache with associated loss of consciousness. The patient was otherwise neurologically intact, with Glasgow Coma Scale score of 15. Computed tomography imaging demonstrated a taser barb invading the inner cortex of the right frontal bone (Figures 3 and 4). The patient was admitted to the neurosciences intensive care unit, where neurosurgery attempted bedside removal (Figure 5). Bedside removal failed, as part of the taser end piece remained, crossing the inner table of the right frontal calvarium extending slightly into the right frontal extra-axial space, and the patient was taken to the operating room for complete removal. Postoperatively, the patient made an unremarkable and complete recovery...

Language: en

Keywords

Trauma; CT scan; images; intracranial; neurosurgery; penetrating; TASER