A retrospective analysis of patients suffering blunt cardiac injury was performed to identify factors associated with mortality. Death was not associated with abnormal ECG or the site or number of bone fractures. Mortality was related to hypotension, elevated lactate, and elevated troponins.
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Trauma
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By Clifton C. Reade, MD, Alan P. Kypson, MD, Friedrich W. Mohr, MD, and W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., MD
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