"Shot to the heart": case report and concise review of cardiac gunshot injury - Kawall T, Seecheran RV, Seecheran VK, Persad SA, Jagdeo CL, Seecheran NA.

Penetrative cardiac injury can often result in life-threatening sequelae such as myocardial contusion or rupture, coronary vessel and valvular damage, pericardial effusion with tamponade, and arrhythmias of which gunshot injury is a chief culprit. We repor...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news