Repeat Point-of-Care Echocardiographic Evaluation of Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A New Paradigm for the Emergency Physician
We report a case of a 52-year-old man who presented to the emergency department (ED) in extremis (hypotensive with an altered sensorium) with subsequent cardiac arrest after a motor vehicle collision. The initial trauma evaluation did not reveal a source of the hemodynamic compromise. A point-of-car...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2017-05-01
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Series: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65g767z6 |