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06 / Trauma & Acute Care Surgery · advanced

A small wound over the precordium

  1. ED
  2. Investigations
  3. Pre-Op
  4. OR
  5. Ward
  6. Debrief

The box

The wound lies within the anatomical box bounded by the clavicles, the costal margins and the midclavicular lines. He is agitated, cool, with distended neck veins and muffled heart sounds. Breath sounds are equal.

Open in 3D: the heart within the pericardium

Distended neck veins with hypotension and equal breath sounds means:

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