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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

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Training non-surgeons to perform resuscitative thoracotomy

Authors: T Konig, Z Perkins, GE Davies

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine | Special Issue 1/2013

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Professor Moritz Schiff, a distinguished 19th century physiologist, provided the first description of thoracotomy, open cardiac massage and aortic compression for the resuscitation of cardiac arrest in 1874 [1] . In 1896, Ludwig Rehn performed the first successful thoracotomy, pericardotomy and cardiac wound repair on a young man dying from cardiac tamponade following a right ventricle stab wound [2]. Combined, these techniques make up the modern day resuscitative thoracotomy (RT), a classic damage control procedure. …

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Title: Training non-surgeons to perform resuscitative thoracotomy
Authors: T Konig
Z Perkins
GE Davies
Publication date: 01-05-2013
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine / Issue Special Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1757-7241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-21-S1-A2

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