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Survival After Emergency Clamshell Thoracotomy With Bilateral Atrial Appendage Injuries, Jennifer Austin, Enrique Alvarez, Alicia Lay, Christian Minshall
Survival After Emergency Clamshell Thoracotomy With Bilateral Atrial Appendage Injuries, Jennifer Austin, Enrique Alvarez, Alicia Lay, Christian Minshall
North Texas GME Research Forum 2024
INTRODUCTION: The probability of survival is poor in patients who require a resuscitative thoracotomy, reported in the literature to be 9-20%. Outcomes are worse in patients who have suffered blunt trauma compared to penetrating trauma reported between 2-7%. Many studies have been done to evaluate clinical predictors of survival versus mortality. We present a case of high-mechanism blunt trauma with a high injury severity score of 34 who survived after an emergency clamshell thoracotomy with full neurological recovery.
CASE PRESENTATION: This case highlights a 28-year-old male who arrived as a transfer to a level 1 trauma center following high mechanism …