Allen Archer, current dual degree medical and master of public health student at the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine and alumnus of the College of Public Health’s Bachelor of Science in Health Administration program, has authored an article in The American Surgeon. The article is titled “Lower Extremity Sandblast Injury: A Rarely Seen Injury Mechanism in the Civilian Population.”
Quillen Department of Surgery physicians Drs. Neil Horsley, Christy Lawson, and J. Bracken Burns are co-authors.
Blast injuries are both complex and rare in the civilian population. This combination can often lead to missed opportunities for early, effective intervention. This article contains a case report of a 31-year-old male who suffered a lower extremity blast injury while using an industrial sandblaster. Its purpose is to highlight the importance of assessing for closed degloving injuries when presented with blast injury traumas in the civilian trauma setting, and outlines the process utilized for assessment and treatment.