Blunt cardiac injury (BCI) refers to injury sustained due to blunt trauma to the heart. The manifestations of such range from clinically silent, transient arrhythmias to deadly cardiac wall rupture. The absence of a clear definition and gold standard for laboratory testing make the diagnosis of blunt cardiac injury difficult.

2024年7月17日 · Identify the clinical signs and symptoms associated with blunt cardiac injury, including both symptomatic and asymptomatic presentations. Differentiate between blunt cardiac injury and other potential causes of chest trauma-related symptoms through careful assessment and diagnostic procedures.

Troponin elevation can stem from catecholamine-induced stress, hypovolemic shock with reperfusion injury, oxidative injury, bacterial or viral toxins or microcirculatory dysfunction. Look at history and patient exam findings.

2020年11月3日 · Blunt Cardiac Injury: spectrum from asymptomatic with minor enzyme rises to fulminant cardiac failure. INJURIES. Cardiac injury. 90% are lethal within minutes; direct impact or pressure transmitted fixed and mobile parts (atriocaval disruptions) Pericardial injury. direct thoracic injury or indirect from acute increase in intra-abdominal pressure

2023年10月12日 · Blunt cardiac injury (BCI) encompasses a spectrum of pathology ranging from clinically silent, transient dysrhythmias to deadly cardiac wall rupture. The most common form is "cardiac contusion" (ie, injury to the myocardium), which …

A blunt cardiac injury is an injury to the heart as the result of blunt trauma, typically to the anterior chest wall. It can result in a variety of specific injuries to the heart, the most common of which is a myocardial contusion, which is a term for a bruise (contusion) to the heart after an injury. [1]

Blunt cardiac injury is blunt chest trauma that causes contusion of myocardial muscle, rupture of a cardiac chamber, or disruption of a heart valve. Sometimes a blow to the anterior chest wall causes cardiac arrest without any structural lesion (commotio cordis).

2024年6月8日 · Cardiac trauma, a critical condition resulting from either blunt or penetrating injuries, presents a spectrum of outcomes from minor, self-resolving arrhythmias to fatal injuries. Rapid fatality is common, with approximately 90% of individuals with lethal cardiac trauma dying before reaching the hospital.

2024年12月30日 · Blunt cardiac injury (BCI) is most commonly the result of sudden deceleration or direct precordial impact and encompasses a spectrum of structural and functional cardiac derangements that may occur after trauma to the heart 7.

2021年12月8日 · blunt cardiac trauma, such as myocardial contusion, disrupts normal heart function, causing pump failure or tamponade