1. Commotio Cordis Secondary to Aggression
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Davide Moreira, Inês Almeida, Inês Pires, Luísa Gonçalves, J Santos, and Joana Laranjeira Correia
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Health professionals ,business.industry ,Aggression ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Cardiorespiratory arrest ,medicine.disease ,Blunt ,Internal medicine ,Commotio cordis ,Ventricular fibrillation ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ,medicine.symptom ,business ,First aid - Abstract
Case report A 35-year-old man was admitted following a recovered cardiorespiratory arrest. He was attacked by another man with multiples blunts by a wood stick in the chest and head. An eyewitness statement indicated that the victim had lost consciousness and collapsed after being hit in the chest. He was in cardiac arrest, and a nearby healthcare professional provided first aid with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The first electrocardiogram (ECG) rhythm strip, fifteen minutes later, identified ventricular fibrillation (VF) (). Sixteen electrical [...]
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- 2021
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