Hay Baler Injuries Requiring Forequarter Amputation

Creighton A. Hardin
NIOSH Education and Information Division

AUTHOR ABSTRACT

Two cases of hay baler injury requiring forequarter amputation are presented.

• Berger's anterior approach of forequarter amputation was used, allowing rapid removal of all devitalized tissue and control of hemorrhage.
• The operative wound should be left open after adequate debridement for drainage. When the granulating tissue is clean, split-thickness skin coverage should be done.

No phantom limb pain was seen in either of these cases.

JOURNAL AND NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ID#

JOURNAL: J Trauma. 1967; 7(1): 164-168.

Note: Journal of Trauma.

NLOM ID#: 67091186

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This document was extracted from the CDC-NIOSH Epidemiology of Farm Related Injuries: Bibliography With Abstracts, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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