published by Tishreen University
in 2016
in
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
• Although cardiac injuries are rare but cause high mortality.
• Up to 20% of the injured to the hospital alive.
• The key to success is early diagnosis and ambulatory surgery.
• Echocardiography help early diagnosis of damage
• Midline transsternal incision is the choice in patients with a degree of heamodynamic stability.
• Anterieur left Thoracic incision is the choice in unstable patients and is often done in the Emergency Department and as part of recovery .
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Velmahos, G.C., et al., Penetrating trauma to the heart: a relatively innocent injury. Surgery, 1994. 115(6): p. 694-7