[Peace-time injuries of the heart and pericardium]. / Raneniia serdtsa i perikarda mirnogo vremeni.

The experience with the treatment of 93 patients with knife injury to the heart and pericardium is summarized. The only proper therapeutical tactics in injury to the heart and pericardium is the emergency performance of operative intervention. The therapeutical value of pericardial punction is doubtful. Good results of treatment were achieved after the use of blood reinfusion. Fourteen (15.1%) patients died.