Kansas Boy Survives Knife Impaling His Face

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 15-year-old Kansas boy got a large knife to the face, and doctors say he's extremely lucky. Jimmy Russell said her son, Eli Gregg, was playing Thursday evening outside of their home in Redfield, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Kansas City, when she heard him scream. She found him with a 10-inch knife jutting from just below his eye and called 911. "It looked pretty grim, it was scary," Russell said in a video released by the University of Kansas Health System, where he was treated. The knife was embedded in his skull and extended to just under his brain. The blade's tip, meanwhile, was pushing against his carotid artery, which supplies the brain with blood. "It could not have had a pound more force on it and him survive that event," said Dr. Koji Ebersole, who oversaw the extraction. "I don't think he would have survived it." This 3D computer graphic model made from X-Ray imagery by The University of Kansas Health System shows how a tip of the knife stopped right on and was pressed against the carotid artery as the X-Ray image shows the skull of Eli Gregg. The 15-year-old Kansas boy is recovering days after doctors removed a 10" knife that impaled his face when he fell while playing. Gregg's harrowing experience began late Thursday, June 13, 2019, when he was playing outside his home in Redfield, about 11 miles from Fort Scott in southeast Kansas. The knife was embedded into his skull, extending to the ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Trauma Patient Care News Source Type: news