@article{ref1,
title="Delayed heart perforation after blunt trauma",
journal="European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery",
year="2002",
author="Roth, Thierry and Kipfer, Beat and Takala, Jukka and Schmid, Ralph A.",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="121-123",
abstract="A 33-year-old patient was hospitalized after a blunt chest trauma with a left flail chest. Six hours after admission to the intensive care unit the patient suddenly developed hypotension and tachycardia. His left chest tube drained 1.5 l of blood within minutes. Immediate resuscitation and emergency sternotomy with left anterolateral extension was performed for pericardial tamponade secondary to left ventricular perforation due to a sharp rib fragment. Outcome was favourable and the patient was operated on for his flail chest by internal stabilization the next day.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1010-7940",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}