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Commotio Cordis Secondary to Aggression
- Source :
- International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences.
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia, 2021.
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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 [...]
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23595647 and 23594802
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7965a96069cc2e2b6848db9a549063ea
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.36660/ijcs.20200356