Right kidney passing into the intrathoracic space after blunt abdominal trauma
- Ryota Inokuchi1,
- Katsuhiko Hashimoto1,
- Hiroko Kobayashi2,
- Tokiya Ishida1,
- Akinori Matsumoto1,
- Yoshibumi Kumada1,
- Hideyuki Yokoyama1,
- Megumi Okada1,
- Fumihito Ito1,
- Itaru Saito1,
- Kazuaki Shinohara1
- 1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
- 2Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
- Correspondence to Dr Ryota Inokuchi, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, 2-5-20 Nishinouchi, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-8558, Japan; inokuchir-icu{at}h.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Received 14 November 2012
- Revised 14 November 2012
- Accepted 21 November 2012
- Published Online First 22 December 2012
- management, risk management
- management, emergency department management
- Trauma, abdomen
- education, teaching
- imaging, CT/MRI
The patient was a 67-year-old man who showed right massive haemothorax after being run over by a low-speed vehicle. In the ambulance, his Glasgow Coma Scale score was 15/15 (eyes: 4; verbal: 5; motor: 6) and he was able to speak. However, he went into cardiopulmonary arrest during transportation. On admission to our hospital 40 min after arrest, right massive haemothorax was detected. The …
