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Penetrating Heart Injury: a case report
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Abstract
Penetrating heart trauma is usually life threatening and it usually requires emergent surgical exploration. Pre-hospital mortality rate and death on arrival is very high. We describe a case of 42 years old man, suffering from stab wound to the fifth left intercostal space that was in shock and severe respiratory distress during admission in emergency room.
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© 2013, Annals of Military and Health Sciences Research. This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which allows for the copying and redistribution of the material only for noncommercial purposes, provided that the original work is properly cited.
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