Deep Epicardial Laceration after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Case Report

Effective chest compressions have been proven to be a key element in a successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). However, unintended injuries have been described in the medical literature for decades, including major intrathoracic injuries. We present a case of an 80-year-old man after a succe...

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Autores principales: Fried Regev, Noa, Slutsky, Tzachi, Lev-Ran, Oren, Ishai, Yaron, Schwarzfuchs, Dan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2021
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Clinical Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8549835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34709171
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10455
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author Fried Regev, Noa
Slutsky, Tzachi
Lev-Ran, Oren
Ishai, Yaron
Schwarzfuchs, Dan
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description Effective chest compressions have been proven to be a key element in a successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). However, unintended injuries have been described in the medical literature for decades, including major intrathoracic injuries. We present a case of an 80-year-old man after a successful CPR who was later diagnosed with deep epicardial laceration as a result of effective chest compressions.
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spelling pubmed-85498352021-10-29 Deep Epicardial Laceration after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Case Report Fried Regev, Noa Slutsky, Tzachi Lev-Ran, Oren Ishai, Yaron Schwarzfuchs, Dan Rambam Maimonides Med J Clinical Case Report Effective chest compressions have been proven to be a key element in a successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). However, unintended injuries have been described in the medical literature for decades, including major intrathoracic injuries. We present a case of an 80-year-old man after a successful CPR who was later diagnosed with deep epicardial laceration as a result of effective chest compressions. Rambam Health Care Campus 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8549835/ /pubmed/34709171 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10455 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Fried Regev et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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