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Near Amputation of Forearm from Saw Injury Agustin Acosta radio journalist
Posted on Friday, May 2nd, 2014 Agustin Acosta is a 40 year old radio journalist who sustained a nearly complete amputation of the distal forearm when a circular saw blade accidentally spun out of its housing on new year's day. He was taken to the OR as an emergency where the arm was reattached using a steel plate and screws and bone from his pelvis as graft. The extensor tendons and the critical median nerve was also [...]
