%0 Journal Article %T Trauma as a life-lengthening agency--a biologic paradox %J Journal of trauma %D 1986 %A Adelson, L. %V 26 %N 12 %P 1148-1150 %X Traumatic antero-posterior chest compression in two persons promptly (immediately?) following spontaneous rupture of acute, free wall myocardial infarcts created pericardio-pleural fistulae with resultant relief of pericardial tamponade, thus permitting cardiac contractions to occur after they naturally and ordinarily would have ceased. %G %I Lippincott Williams and Wilkins %@ 0022-5282 %U http://dx.doi.org/