Sentence examples for mangled limb from inspiring English sources
Cars still slow down along Route 35 to take in the sight of houses torn in half, and the roller coaster still sticks like a mangled limb out of the ocean off Seaside Heights.
As an exception and utilizing DCO guidelines, salvage of the stable polytrauma patient's mangled limb is possibly the most relevant.
The question whether amputation of a mangled limb is advisable for a severely injured (polytrauma) patient cannot be easily answered [41].
As for the mangled limb in these patients, it is unlikely a scoring system will allow a clear cut-off point for amputation versus salvage.
Still, for these patients, the decision to salvage or amputate produces the same dilemmas as with the patient with the isolated mangled limb.
Even if preserving a mangled limb is a technical possibility, the question is often raised whether the end result will also be functional and what treatment would lead to the best patient outcome.
The Mangled Extremity Severity Score (MESS) was introduced by Johansen et al. [20] in 1990 based on a retrospective review of 26 mangled lower limbs in civilian practice.
The book belies the dryness of its subtitle with tales of business deals turned violent and limbs mangled in machinery.
It features gruesome imagery – limbs are mangled, tongues are cut out – all played with an eye for excruciating detail.
The explosion left one remaining limb, his left arm, broken and mangled.
At his request, courtroom monitors flashed images of bombed sites, charred and mangled bodies and severed human limbs and heads.
