During a mass casualty response, after a rocket attack, patients come in.
On of the casualties is a 30-year-old male sustaining fatal injuries from the aforementioned rocket attack. At triage, he was triaged to the “expectant” category to facilitate final mortality identification and postmortem care.
During post-mortem care, the decedent was noted to have a deformity of the anterior chest wall just inferior to the xiphoid process, and an 8 × 8 cm wound in the right posterior wall of the torso. Given the known scenario of injuries suffered in a rocket attack, the possibility of an unexploded ordnance (UXO) was raised.
