
There are two questions in case of acute bullet injuries: Is hot bullet sterile? and What are the indication for removal of bullet that has done no vital damage? 1. Hot bullet is sterile: This is found to be false by various articles [1,2,3,4]. Bullets can cause infection by two mechanisms; by carrying skin and associated flora with it [5] and by puncturing internal organs that have native bacterial flora like gut [6]. However this is not...
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