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Question: Trauma
A child is brought in with a stab wound to the right neck just superior to the cricoid cartilage. What zone of the neck is this? What is the significance of the zones?
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A child is brought in with a stab wound to the right neck just superior to the cricoid cartilage. What zone of the neck is this? What is the significance of the zones?
Kelly June 9, 2016 - 5:47 am
Zone II, which extends from the cricoid cartilage to the angle of the mandible. Zone I is below that, and Zone III is above. For penetrating neck injury, the significance of the different zones is the likely structures injured, optimal work-up, and how difficult it is to control any bleeding. EMdocs has a fantastic summary at http://www.emdocs.net/neck-trauma-practice-update/