Trauma
QUESTION: Patient hit chest on steering wheel now with abnormal EKG, Diagnosis? Management?
ANSWER: Diagnosis - Blunt cardiac injury (shock without hemorrhage or spinal shock, abnormal EKG, CI < 2.5, abnormal ECHO), Management - Admit for observation, EKG/troponin now and 8 hours later, if
unstable = ECHO, if pericardial effusion = Sternotomy, cardiac repair
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