@article{65f48d7ba55744c08ddd67432c0285b1,
title = "A First Report: Two Cases of Survival and Full Recovery After Blunt Cardiac Rupture Requiring Emergency Department Thoracotomy.",
author = "Courtney Weber and Jason Farrah and Alejandro Garcia and Darwin Ang",
note = "Blunt traumatic cardiac rupture is an uncommon event in trauma and survival is rare. While multiple isolated accounts of repair of blunt cardiac rupture have been reported in the literature, there is not a single report of survival from right ventricular rupture following an emergency department thoracotomy (EDT).",
year = "2020",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0003134820919731",
language = "American English",
volume = "86",
journal = "The American Surgeon",
issn = "1555-9823",
publisher = "Sage",
number = "5",
}