Right ventricular blowout rupture complicating cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a patient with acute pulmonary embolism

Just 28 min after the collapse, the patient deteriorated to pulseless electrical activity, and manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initiated. The possible mechanism of the right ventricular rupture in this case was the increase in intracardiac pressure due to chest compression in the sett...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ case reports 2021-08, Vol.14 (8), p.e245520
Hauptverfasser: Yonezawa, Naoki, Takei, Tetsuhiro, Fujisawa, Michiko
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