@article{ref1,
title="Penetrating heart injuries in two butchers",
journal="Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde",
year="1999",
author="Jagers op Akkerhuis, M. and Engelberts, I. and Brink, Peter R. G.",
volume="143",
number="43",
pages="2153-2156",
abstract="Two butchers, men aged 25 and 48 years, sustained a perforating heart injury when they made a vertical cut. They were rushed to hospital. The first patient was haemodynamically stable on arrival. The second had hypotension and cardiac ultrasonography revealed increased fluid in the pericardium; he was subjected to pericardiocentesis. The heart wounds in both patients were sutured via a left-sided anterolateral thoracotomy; the younger had a wound in the left ventricle, the older both a dorsal and a ventral transmural perforation of the right ventricle. Both patients could be discharged after a little over a week in good condition. Employers in abbattoirs should provide protective clothing fastening high enough to prevent heart wounds.<p /><p>Language: nl</p>",
language="nl",
issn="0028-2162",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}