Eighty‐seven cases of a nail gun injury to the extremity

Abstract

The present study characterises the injury patterns caused by nail guns. Treatment of these injuries should be based on clinical findings; however, the majority of cases should undergo surgical treatment. The required operation is a short and safe treatment modality that might allow a thorough assessment of the injury, removal of embedded material, repair of structural damage and a sterile washout to be performed.

Characteristics of accidental injuries from power tools treated at two emergency departments in Queensland

“…Studies have analysed US ED presentations for injuries from lawnmowers, power saws and nail guns (United States). Injuries from table saws, chain saws, nail guns, power tools and penetrating injuries have also been studied. This research indicates that: (i) grinders, power saws, drills and welders are the most common power tools causing injury; (ii) males suffer more injuries than females; (iii) lacerations, muscular damage and amputations to the fingers and hands are the most common injuries; and (iv) older people have lower injury rates, but are more likely to be hospitalised.…”

Nail gun injuries treated in U.S emergency departments, 2006–2011: Not just a worker safety issue

“…Over the last 10–15 years, we have gained considerable knowledge regarding the epidemiology of work‐related nail gun injuries. As the tools appeared in the marketplace in the 1960s, injury case reports began to appear in the medical literature; they continue and have expanded to include a number of case series [Cragg, ; Richardson, ; Wu et al, ; le Nobel and Wing, ; Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, ; Kizer et al, ; Lee and Sternberg, ; Alberico et al, ; Hoffman et al, ; Bruno et al, ; Beaver and Cheatham, , Jithoo et al, ; Takagi et al, ; Horne and Corley, ; Ling et al, ; Rhee et al, ]. Passive and active surveillance efforts followed [Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, ; Baggs et al, , ; Dement et al, ; Lipscomb et al, ,, ; Lipscomb and Jackson MMWR, ] as did descriptive and analytic epidemiologic studies [Lipscomb et al, , , , 2010a, 2010b].…”

Nail Gun Induced Open Head Injury: A Case Report

“… 6) Nail gun injury can occur to various parts of the body. 1 , 2 , 5 , 8) Often the injuries from the nail gun are not fully penetrating because of the bone. 4 , 7 , 9 , 10) However, if penetration is very deep in the brain, the results may be fatal.…”