Methods Thirty patients with serious blunt chest trauma underwent echocardiography all of them underwent conventional myocardial markers simultaneously. All the observation time phases were set as 1h,2h,4h and 8h after trauma.
Dr. Jon Drezner, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Washington and team physician for pro football's Seattle Seahawks, said blunttrauma to a child's chest can send the heart into an abnormal rhythm.