• Int Emerg Nurs · Apr 2012

    Case Reports

    Nail gun may cause heart injury: a young adult's misadventure.

    • Mouhcine Madani, Mohammed Drissi, Mohamed Rida Ajaja, Maatir Rifai, El Mehdi Moutaouakkil, Younes Cheikhaoui, and Anas Slaoui.
    • Cardiovascular Surgery, Cheikh Zaid International Hospital, Rabat, Morocco. madanimouhcine@hotmail.com
    • Int Emerg Nurs. 2012 Apr 1; 20 (2): 98-101.

    AbstractPenetrating cardiac and great vessels trauma is life threatening and a surgical challenge. We relate an unusual case of pulmonary artery injury secondary to an accidental trauma by a nail gun. Surgical repair was late but successful.Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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