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    This document outlines physical injuries that can occur in different parts of the body. It discusses potential head injuries like scalp wounds, skull fractures, and brain injuries. Chest injuries like lung and heart damage from stab wounds, gunshots or crushed ribs are described. Abdominal injuries to organs like the liver, stomach, intestines and kidneys from blows, stabbings or vehicle impacts are covered. Pelvic fractures from accidents are noted. Extremity injuries from direct violence, crushing forces or indirect impacts are briefly mentioned at the end.

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    Chapter 11

    Physical Injuries in the


    Different Parts of the Body
    Outline:
    1) Head and neck injuries • Heart
    • Scalp 3) Abdominal injuries
    • Skull • Stomach
    • Brain • Intestine
    • Face • Liver
    • Neck • Kidney
    2) Chest injuries 4) Pelvic injuries
    • Chest wall • Vagina
    • Lungs
    5) Extremities
    1) Head and neck injuries
    • Absence of external wound does Scalp:
    not permit a conclusion that • A wound of the scalp although
    there is no internal damage small and negligible is always
    • Bleeding from the ear, nostrils, potentially serious:
    and mouth may indicate internal • Prone to infections
    fracture • Proximity to the skull and brain
    • Unconsciousness • Difficult to determine the extent
    of internal damage
    1) Head and neck injuries
    • Abrasion of the scalp is • Skull:
    commonly unnoticed due to the • Fissure fracture – impact of a
    protective covering of the hair blunt object resulting to cracks in
    the skull
    • Scalp wounds – there or there • Localized depressed fracture –
    may not be involvement of the smashing of the round face of a
    skull hammer
    • Penetrating injuries – sharp
    instruments injuring the skull
    1) Head and neck injuries
    • Hemorrhages may occur even in • Compression of the brain –
    the absence of a fracture. It may symptoms of injury do not
    occur without trauma. Blood appear immediately
    vessels in the brain may be • Vomiting, headache, irregular
    diseased and may rupture
    breathing and paralysis
    spontaneously.
    • Brain:
    • Loss of memory, epilepsy,
    • Hemorrhage
    paralysis or insanity
    • Laceration through a fractured skull
    • Compression which leads to
    unconsciousness or paralysis
    1) Head and neck injuries
    • Face: • Neck:
    Due to the proximity to the brain, Abrasions of the neck – fatal due
    facial injuries are always a threat big blood vessels
    to life • Manual strangulation
    • Eye • Death by hanging
    • Nose – usually fatal when infection • Suicidal cut-throat wounds
    extends to the brain
    • Ear
    • Mouth
    2) Chest injuries
    • Vital organs – heart, lungs and • Heart and lungs:
    principal blood vessels • Natural disease
    • Direct violence • Sharp instrument – bullet or stab
    wound
    • Stab wounds due to its • Fractured ribs
    accessibility • Compression – crushing or
    • Bullet wounds grinding force
    • Vehicular accidents
    • Fracture of the ribs • Violent dynamite blast
    • Affecting heart and lungs
    3) Abdominal injuries
    • Skin may remain unmarked • Intestine:
    despite extensive internal • Septic contents may scatter
    injuries – internal bleeding or resulting to infection
    rupture of organs • Stomach:
    • Most vulnerable internal organs • Stab wounds – fatal
    • Several blood vessels changing • Infection or injury adjacent to the
    liver
    directions
    • Tearing of the stomach is common
    • Compression or blow when a person is run over by a
    motor vehicle
    3) Abdominal injuries
    • Liver: • Kidney:
    • Most vulnerable due to its size, • Traumatic injury usually from a
    weight, location and friability blow at the lumbar region
    • Victim usually dies of severe • Injured at the slightest violence
    hemorrhage or shock • Run over by a vehicle
    • Stab wounds and gunshot wounds • Fall
    usually involve the liver • Victim usually dies of loss of
    kidney function, severe
    hemorrhage or shock
    4) Pelvic injuries
    • Fracture, especially of the pubis, 5) Extremities
    is common in vehicular accidents
    and crush injuries Injuries on upper or lower
    extremities – direct violence,
    • Difficulty or loss of locomotion crushing or some indirect force.
    • Vagina: • Lacerated wounds – flesh or blood
    • Laceration due to sexual act or vessels and nerves
    faulty instrumentation to induce • Muscle swelling and pain
    criminal abortion
    • Fracture of bones
    • Infection – severe, require amputation
    - END -

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