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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2017 Apr;82(4):733–741. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001386

Figure 1. Suggested framework for clinical management of blunt chest trauma patients with pericardial fluid on computed tomography scan.

Figure 1

* The institutional data presented suggest that hemodynamically normal patients with moderate to large amounts of fluid may be observed; however, given small sample sizes, this recommendation must be confirmed in larger studies.