A Child With Stray Bullet Injury To Sauer’s Danger Zone: An Unusual Presentation – A Case Report

Syeda Taajwar Zaineb

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Celebratory firings are common in many countries. These may cause significant harm to the victims who accidently get injured by a stray bullet. We report a 10-year-old male child who got injured by a stray bullet while he was sleeping at the roof top. A single entry wound was found on anterior chest on right side in third intercostal space just to the right of sternum. His general condition gradually deteriorated and needed chest intubation and packed cells transfusion. He responded to the conservative management and discharged after improvement. He survived in spite of significant mechanism of injury involving the danger zone of chest where bullet penetrated the body.

Key words

Stray bullet injury, Thoracic trauma, Sauer’s Danger zone, Child.