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Head injuries can, as this case shows, be very dramatic very quickly, especially when “heavy machinery” is used. The present case also shows that in the emergency service one is not immune to also experiencing terrible situations that one assumes to be a one-time event.
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Arntz, HR. (2023). Injuries from Heavy Machinery. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_7
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