Blunt cardiac injury and intraoperative hypoxaemia
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Blunt cardiac injury.
In summary, the incidence of BCI following blunt thoracic trauma patients has been reported between 20% and 76%, and no gold standard exists to diagnose BCI. Diagnostic tests should be limited to identify those patients who are at risk of developing cardiac complications as a result of BCI. Therapeutic interventions should be directed to treat the complications of BCI. Finally, the prognosis an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/bf03009733