Traumatic cardiac injury: Experience from a level-1 trauma centre
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Traumatic cardiac injury: Experience from a level-1 trauma centre
PURPOSE Traumatic cardiac injury (TCI) is a challenge for trauma surgeons as it provides a short thera- peutic window and the management is often dictated by the underlying mechanism and hemodynamic status. The current study is to evaluate the factors influencing the outcome of TCI. METHODS Prospectively maintained database of TCI cases admitted at a Level-1 trauma center from July 2008 to Ju...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chinese Journal of Traumatology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1008-1275
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjtee.2016.08.001