TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Therapy of head injuries caused by animal slaughter guns
JO  - Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
A1  - Crevenna, Richard
A1  - Klintschar, Michael
A1  - Weger, Martin
A1  - Weger, Wolfgang
A1  - Quittan, Michael
A1  - Fialka-Moser, Veronika
A1  - Homann, Carl N.
SP  - 37
EP  - 39
VL  - 153
IS  - 1-2
N2  - Slaughterer's guns ("humane killers") are powder-activated cattle skull impacting tools. Today mechanical stunning is typical for country like regions, because in the municipal slaughter-houses electrical stunning of pigs and ruminants is preferred. In rare cases these weapons are used for suicide. They then cause penetrating brain lesions and if the victim survives the brain-damage, an encephalitis caused by the impacted material results. The neurosurgical treatment is to revise the gunshot canal and to remove impacted fragments of bone and contaminated skin (imprimat) under antibiotic cover. A psychiatric treatment of the mostly underlying depression and a rehabilitative treatment should complete therapy. So treatment of slaughterer's gun injury should have a multidisciplinary approach.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0043-5341
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -