Her skull reveals numerous cuts on the face, chops to the forehead and back of the skull, and
penetrating knife wounds with the «clear intent» to remove the brain.
«Time is truly of the essence when it comes to certain kinds of injuries and our analysis suggests that, for
penetrating injuries such as
knife and gun
wounds, it might be better to just get to a trauma center as soon as possible in whatever way possible,» says Elliott Haut, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of surgery and emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's senior author.