High Impact Collisions Can Cause Internal Issues

What do you do when you have such a high impact that it can affect your inner body and affect your organs in
there? I’m Gary Burger from Burger Law. I wanted to tell you a quick little story about what happened to one of our
clients who is involved in a sudden deceleration and a change of velocity of about 39 miles an hour, very significant.
And what happens is he had a rupture in the peritoneum and the tissues in his lower abdomen that required emergent
surgery. He had other problems as well, and he’s here with us. He’s doing well now. But, what they had to do emergently
is they had to go into his lower small intestine, and the doctors, great doctors, had to go in, and emergently, he had
internal bleeding, and they had to emergently excise or take out about 55 centimeters of his small intestine. And then,
they had to put it together. We took a video deposition of this doctor.

What they do is, when they put it together, when they take out a piece of your intestine, they don’t attach it end to
end because that might break. What they do instead is they put two ends of it together. You can see what they did. There
was blood pooling around the liver and the spleen with mesenteric tears. They took out, they transected the small bowel
with the GI stapler, and oh yeah, it was 55 centimeters. They did anastomosis. What they did is they took the two
remaining sides of it; they took a clean cut; they put them together; and then, they closed it up together with
permanent staples to close that. And then what they did is they opened up between them, and then they sewed them
together here if you can see, sewed them together here so that when he’s digesting it goes through there. He has had
some issues with this post-surgically; however, this is the standard of care in how these small type of ruptures are
addressed. So, a lot of times, after and post an impact like that, the doctors will monitor these patients to make sure
that their organs are working well, their digestive systems, these other things because the sudden deceleration can
negatively affect someone and cause permanent injuries inside them even if they’re not noted right away.

If you have any questions about how to deal with these injuries, the medical involved in these injuries or anything
along these lines, give us a call at www.burgerlaw.com, visit us at www.burgerlaw.com, and our phone
number is 866-599-2222. Thank you.