This article reviews the current concepts in penetrating chest trauma. The authors discuss mechanisms of injury, nursing assessment, and interventions for penetrating injuries resulting in cardiac rupture, cardiac tamponade, tension pneumothorax, hemothorax, great vessel injury, and sucking chest wounds.
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Schrader, K. A. (1993). Penetrating chest trauma. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 5(4), 687–696. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0899-5885(18)30537-9
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