WE became aware of the dangers of external cardiac compression in infants and children when 2 cases of hepatic rupture came to our attention. 1 A check through pathological files revealed that about 7 ...

For patients with nontraumatic, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), evolving technology in the form of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta, as well as expanded use of ...

Figure 1: Aortic dissection is caused by bleeding within the aortic wall. The first 2 weeks after the onset of an aortic dissection is considered the acute stage, in which patients are highly ...