Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: Significant blunt cardiac injury

Tammy R Kopelman¹, Walt L Biffl, Raul Coimbra+16

• ¹From the Department of Surgery (T.R.K.), Mission Hospital, Asheville, North Carolina; Trauma Surgery Department (W.L.B.), Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, San Diego; Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine (R.C.), Loma Linda, California; Department of Surgery, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (K.L.B.), Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Virginia; Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine (C.A.C.), Gainesville, Florida; Department of Surgery, University of MD School of Medicine (C.J.F.), Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center (J.L.H.), Kansas City, Kansas; Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (A.M.H.), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Los Angeles General Medical Center/University of Southern California (K.I.), Los Angeles, California; Division of Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine (N.K.), Phoenix, Arizona; Department of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (A.J.K.), Memphis, Tennessee; Department of Surgery, Methodist Dallas Medical Center (M.L.), Dallas, Texas; Department of Surgery, New York University Langone Health (G.A.M.), New York, New York; Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina (A.R.P.), Charleston, South Carolina; Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (M.S.), St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery (K.M.S.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Surgery (R.T.), University of California, San Francisco, California; Department of Surgery, St. Charles Health System (J.M.W.), Bend, Oregon; Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine (D.M.S.), Baltimore, Maryland.