Jason D Sciarretta, Soroosh Noorbakhsh, Yoo Joung, Daniel W Bailey, Mari Freedberg, Jonathan Nguyen, Randi N Smith, Patricia Ayoung-Chee, Millard A Davis, Elizabeth R Benjamin, S Rob Todd
BACKGROUND: Traumatic pneumopericardium (PPC) is a rare clinical entity associated with chest trauma, resulting from a pleuropericardial connection in the presence of a pneumothorax, interstitial air tracking along the pulmonary perivascular sheaths from ruptured alveoli to the pericardium, or direct trachea-bronchial-pericardial communication. Our objectives were to describe the modern management approach to PPC and to identify variables that could improve survival with severe thoracic injury...
December 29, 2023: Injury