Template:Background BCI
Blunt cardiac injury
- A spectrum of disease due to blunt trauma to the chest wall
- Ranges from myocardial concussion to myocardial contusion to infarction to cardiac rupture and death.[1]
- Up to 20% of all MVC deaths are due to blunt cardiac injury
- ↑ El-Menyar A, Al Thani H, Zarour A, Latifi R. Understanding traumatic blunt cardiac injury. Ann Card Anaesth. 2012 Oct-Dec;15(4):287-95. doi: 10.4103/0971-9784.101875.