Injuries in civil aviation can occur as a consequence of work-related accidents happening in airport. The ground crew can sustain slips, trips, falls, and machinery accidents. Most such accidents are observed when aircraft is departing. This clinical report describes a case of an airport ground assistant severely injured by a helicopter after the strike with a main rotor blade that was slowing after that the craft was landed and the engine was stopped, and reports surgical emergency treatment of life-threatening facial lesions.

Major Facial Trauma After Helicopter Landing / Becelli, Roberto; Roberto, Morello; Giancarlo, Renzi; Giorgio, Matarazzo; Chiara, Dominici. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY. - ISSN 1049-2275. - STAMPA. - 22:4(2011), pp. 1517-1519. [10.1097/scs.0b013e31821d4ca0]

Major Facial Trauma After Helicopter Landing

BECELLI, Roberto;
2011

Abstract

Injuries in civil aviation can occur as a consequence of work-related accidents happening in airport. The ground crew can sustain slips, trips, falls, and machinery accidents. Most such accidents are observed when aircraft is departing. This clinical report describes a case of an airport ground assistant severely injured by a helicopter after the strike with a main rotor blade that was slowing after that the craft was landed and the engine was stopped, and reports surgical emergency treatment of life-threatening facial lesions.
2011
helicopter; bleeding; facial trauma; life-threatening
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Major Facial Trauma After Helicopter Landing / Becelli, Roberto; Roberto, Morello; Giancarlo, Renzi; Giorgio, Matarazzo; Chiara, Dominici. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY. - ISSN 1049-2275. - STAMPA. - 22:4(2011), pp. 1517-1519. [10.1097/scs.0b013e31821d4ca0]
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