A mortal accident caused by a broken toilet seat cover
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Sep 1, 2014
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Superior Gluteal Artery Vein Injury
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According to hospital records, a 36 years old, 1.75 m in length, average weight man was brought to Izmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital by 112 ambulance at 01/07/2011, 21:20 PM with an injury caused by fracture of toilet seat cover when he was sitting. In the examination, a 20 cm length oblique section with active bleeding was seen at the right gluteal region and superior gluteal artery and vein injury was detected. Department of orthopedics controlled bleeding, patient admitted to intensive care unit but he was accepted as dead at 06:35 AM.
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Yildiray Zeyfeoglu, M. Sunay Yavuz, Tarik Ulucay, M. Ziya Kir, Faruk Aydin, Ilknur Kahraman, Gonca Tatar, Zafer Karadeniz, & Mustafa Dalgic. (2014). A mortal accident caused by a broken toilet seat cover. Medical Science and Discovery, 1(3), 88–90. Retrieved from https://medscidiscovery.com/index.php/msd/article/view/46
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provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kaz’ar G, Ga’al P, K’osa J. Significance of home accidents. Magy Traumatol Ortop Kezseb Plasztikai Seb. 1994;37:263-270. Abstract.
Kopjar B, Wickizer TM. Population-based study of unintentional injuries in the home. American journal of epidemiology. 1996;144(5):456-62.
Runyan CW, Perkis D, Marshall SW, Johnson RM, Coyne-Beasley T, Waller AE, et al. Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States Part II: morbidity. American journal of preventive medicine. 2005;28(1):80- 7.
Lee VM, Wong TW, Lau CC. Home accidents in elderly patients presenting to an emergency department. Accident and emergency nursing. 1999;7(2):96-102.
Copyright © 2014 The Author(s); This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.