Abstract:Introduction:
The most common cardiac injuries in the U.S. are either blunt trauma from motor vehicle accidents, or low-velocity injuries from stabbings. High-velocity injury is less common, and survival to presentation is rare. During military conflict, high-velocity injury, including gunshot wounds (GSW) and fragment injury from improvised explosive devices (IED) are relatively more common.
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