A new hazard for windsurfers: needlefish impalement.

by **dean** Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:48 pm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10195482

J Emerg Med. 1999 Mar-Apr;17(2):255-9.
A new hazard for windsurfers: needlefish impalement.
Link KW, Counselman FL, Steele J, Caughey M.
Source

Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Emergency Physicians of Tidewater, Norfolk 23507, USA.
Abstract

Marine-related injuries and envenomations are common to the coastal physician. Needlefish injuries, which occur almost exclusively in the Indo-Pacific region, have not previously been reported along the Atlantic seaboard. This case report describes a penetrating in