Pregnant woman in labor suffers bilateral hip dislocations from airbag deployment with feet on dashboard during car accident. The femoral head becomes trapped inside the broken pelvis, complicating the imminent delivery.
Also known as: Broken pelvis
The pelvic fracture traps the baby's head during active labor, requiring emergency surgical intervention. Combined with vascular injury causing significant internal bleeding.
Also known as: Ruptured spleen
Grade-2 splenic laceration from blunt trauma in the car accident, contributing to the patient's internal bleeding requiring surgical repair.
Major vascular injury from trauma causing life-threatening bleeding during emergency cesarean section, requiring surgical vascular repair.
Also known as: Hiatal hernia
Newborn delivered via emergency cesarean is found to have a diaphragmatic hernia causing severe respiratory distress, requiring ECMO support and emergency neonatal surgery in the NICU.
Also known as: Collapsed lung
Taxi driver involved in the accident develops a collapsed lung from rib fractures that punctured the lung, requiring chest tube placement.
Also known as: Broken rib
Multiple rib fractures from the car accident lead to lung puncture and bleeding, requiring surgical stabilization in the operating room.
Also known as: Traumatic finger amputation
Hockey player suffers severe facial injury when stepped on by a skate blade during a fight on ice, requiring complex plastic surgery repair.