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Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation

BACKGROUND: Splenic injury due to chest compressions is a rare and fatal complication that occurs immediately after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CASE PRESENTATION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was carried out using a mechanical chest compression device in a 74‐year‐old Japanese female patient who...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Takahiro, Nakao, Shota, Fukuma, Hiroshi, Matsuoka, Tetsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10189632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37207115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ams2.845
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author Yamada, Takahiro
Nakao, Shota
Fukuma, Hiroshi
Matsuoka, Tetsuya
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description BACKGROUND: Splenic injury due to chest compressions is a rare and fatal complication that occurs immediately after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CASE PRESENTATION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was carried out using a mechanical chest compression device in a 74‐year‐old Japanese female patient who underwent cardiac arrest. Computed tomography postresuscitation revealed bilateral anterior rib fractures. Other traumatic findings were not observed. Coronary angiography revealed no new lesions; the cause of the arrest was hypokalemia. She received mechanical support with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and multiple antithrombotic agents. Her hemodynamic and coagulative condition became life‐threatening on day 4; abdominal ultrasound revealed massive bloody ascites. Only a minor splenic laceration was observed intraoperatively, despite massive bleeding. Furthermore, her condition stabilized after splenectomy and blood transfusion. Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was discontinued on day 5. CONCLUSION: In patients with postcardiac arrest, delayed bleeding due to minor visceral injury should be considered, particularly for coagulation abnormalities.
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spelling pubmed-101896322023-05-18 Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation Yamada, Takahiro Nakao, Shota Fukuma, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Tetsuya Acute Med Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Splenic injury due to chest compressions is a rare and fatal complication that occurs immediately after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CASE PRESENTATION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was carried out using a mechanical chest compression device in a 74‐year‐old Japanese female patient who underwent cardiac arrest. Computed tomography postresuscitation revealed bilateral anterior rib fractures. Other traumatic findings were not observed. Coronary angiography revealed no new lesions; the cause of the arrest was hypokalemia. She received mechanical support with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and multiple antithrombotic agents. Her hemodynamic and coagulative condition became life‐threatening on day 4; abdominal ultrasound revealed massive bloody ascites. Only a minor splenic laceration was observed intraoperatively, despite massive bleeding. Furthermore, her condition stabilized after splenectomy and blood transfusion. Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was discontinued on day 5. CONCLUSION: In patients with postcardiac arrest, delayed bleeding due to minor visceral injury should be considered, particularly for coagulation abnormalities. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10189632/ /pubmed/37207115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ams2.845 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Acute Medicine & Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Matsuoka, Tetsuya
Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
title Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
title_full Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
title_fullStr Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
title_full_unstemmed Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
title_short Delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
title_sort delayed massive bleeding from minor splenic injury due to mechanical chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10189632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37207115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ams2.845
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