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- D Demetriades, B Rabinowitz, and C Sofianos.
- J Trauma. 1987 May 1;27(5):483-5.
AbstractThis study group comprises 73 patients who underwent emergency room resuscitative thoracotomy for cardiac arrest following penetrating chest and neck injuries. Overall, 12 patients (16.4%) were successfully resuscitated but only five (6.8%) left the hospital alive without neurologic defects. None of the 18 cases with no vital signs at all (no cardiac activity, no respiratory efforts, nonreactive pupils) on admission survived. Only one out of the 19 cases with no cardiac activity and with fixed pupils but present respiratory efforts survived (5.3%). Of 14 patients with cardiac arrest but with respiratory efforts and reactive pupils, three survived (21.4%). We suggest that patients with no vital signs on admission to the hospital should not be subjected to resuscitative thoracotomy.
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