This is a 21-year-old caucasian male who states he's otherwise healthy who presents to the ED via squad after an injury at work. The patient was working at kenwood mall in a demolition site. He was carrying a mirror, apparently some drywall fell, cracked the mirror which smashed into his right arm. per the squad, the initial evaluation the blood was "spurting" at the scene. They wrapped a pressure bandage on it and he arrived to the ED in stable condition. Upon arrival the patient was complaining of pain on the right forearm as well as numbness of the right fifth finger. Pressure banage was intact. The patient denies any other injury.
The patient has multiple lacerations of the right arm. The most significant of which was in antecubital fossa. There was a significant amount of bleeding after the bandage was removed. We reapplied a pressure bandage. The patient was noted to have a 2.5 cm laceration in his right upper arm. He also had a 5 cm laceration above the antecubital fossa, an 8 cm laceration over the antecubital fossa which was deep this was the main area of bleeding. He also had a laceration below the antecubital fossa, 1 cm in length. This laceration was bleeding as well pretty profusely.
I have picture of this i my gallery..if u wanna see them u can..but it is nasty
