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SUBMITTER: Lee N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082498 | biostudies-other | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Trauma case reports 20151127 9-12
This is a case of penetrating chest trauma with traumatic arrest from cardiac tamponade, right and left ventriculotomies, mitral valve injury and ventricular septal defect. Patient underwent resuscitative thoracotomy converted to clamshell thoracotomy for haemorrhage control. Ventriculotomies were repaired on initial damage control operation. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation and therapeutic cooling bridged to definitive cardiac repair several days later. Patient was discharged to ...[more]