Can a Falling Bullet Be Lethal at Terminal Velocity? Cardiac Injury Caused by a Celebratory Bullet

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 283-284

  Incorvaia, Angelo N ^a   Poulos, Despina M ^a   Jones, Robert N ^b   Tschirhart, James M ^c  

^a Synergy Medical Education Alliance   (United States)

^b Michigan Eye Institute   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; BULLET; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTIM; WEAPON;

HEART INJURIES; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33845505505     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.04.046     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. World Health Organization. International Statistical classification of diseases and related health problem, 10th revision (1992), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
2. Ordog G.J., Dornhoffer P., Ackroyd G., et al. Spent bullets and their injuries: the result of firing weapons into the sky. J Trauma 37 (1994) 1003-1006
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New Year's Eve injuries caused by celebratory gunfire-Puerto Rico, 2003. MMWR 53 (2004) 1174-1175
4. Ordog G.J., Wasserberger J., and Balasubramanium S. Wound ballistics: theory and practice. Ann Emerg Med 13 (1985) 1113