Commotio cordis as a rare cause of traumatic cardiac arrest in motorbike crashes: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 369-372

  Yeh, Chun Chieh ^a   Hsieh, Chi Hsun ^a   Wang, Yu Chun ^a   Chung, Ping Kuei ^a   Chen, Ray Jade ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blunt torso trauma; Commotio cordis; Motorbike crash; Traumatic cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMOTIO CORDIS; DEFIBRILLATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; MOTOR VEHICLE; RESUSCITATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; COMMOTIO CORDIS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; OFF-ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES; RESUSCITATION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77953948492     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-4073-3     Document Type: Article

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