Blunt cardiac trauma caused by fatal falls from height: An autopsy-based assessment of the injury pattern

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 301-304

  Turk E E ^a,b   Tsokos, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blunt force; Cardiac surgery; Fall from height; Heart injuries; Polytrauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL ENDOCARDIAL TEAR; ATRIAL TRANSMURAL TEAR; AUTOPSY; BLUNT CARDIAC TRAUMA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EPICARDIAL HEMATOMA; EPICARDIUM; FALLING; FATALITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL TEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; STERNUM; STERNUM FRACTURE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GERMANY; HEART ATRIA; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 4444227461     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000074554.86172.0E     Document Type: Review

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