Successful management of penetrating cardiac injury in a limited resource setting without cardiac surgical instruments and heart-lung machine

Penetrating cardiac injuries (PCI) are often fatal and do not present enough time for effective referrals to higher centers. Most deaths occur in transit from a remote healthcare setting with limited resources. I present the first reported case of PCI in the medical literature to be managed successf...

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Autor principal: Ammannaya, Ganesh Kumar K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37593188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad473
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description Penetrating cardiac injuries (PCI) are often fatal and do not present enough time for effective referrals to higher centers. Most deaths occur in transit from a remote healthcare setting with limited resources. I present the first reported case of PCI in the medical literature to be managed successfully in the absence of heart-lung machine as well as dedicated cardiac surgical instruments and equipment, and which was further complicated by mediastinitis.
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spelling pubmed-104312002023-08-17 Successful management of penetrating cardiac injury in a limited resource setting without cardiac surgical instruments and heart-lung machine Ammannaya, Ganesh Kumar K J Surg Case Rep Case Report Penetrating cardiac injuries (PCI) are often fatal and do not present enough time for effective referrals to higher centers. Most deaths occur in transit from a remote healthcare setting with limited resources. I present the first reported case of PCI in the medical literature to be managed successfully in the absence of heart-lung machine as well as dedicated cardiac surgical instruments and equipment, and which was further complicated by mediastinitis. Oxford University Press 2023-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10431200/ /pubmed/37593188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad473 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Successful management of penetrating cardiac injury in a limited resource setting without cardiac surgical instruments and heart-lung machine
title_full Successful management of penetrating cardiac injury in a limited resource setting without cardiac surgical instruments and heart-lung machine
title_fullStr Successful management of penetrating cardiac injury in a limited resource setting without cardiac surgical instruments and heart-lung machine
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title_short Successful management of penetrating cardiac injury in a limited resource setting without cardiac surgical instruments and heart-lung machine
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