Electrocardiographic Changes in Stab and Gunshot Wounds of the Heart, With Review of the Literature

Article1 September 1941ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN STAB AND GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE HEART, WITH REVIEW OF THE LITERATUREJ. SOLOVAY, M.D., G. D. RICE, M.D., H. U. SOLOVAY, M.D.J. SOLOVAY, M.D., G. D. RICE, M.D., H. U. SOLOVAY, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-15-3-465 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSince the dawn of the twentieth century, many hundreds of stab and gunshot wounds of the heart in human beings have been treated surgically, but not until 1924 was a case with serial electrocardiographic tracings recorded.1 Heart wounds are still sufficiently novel that individual or multiple case reports continue to be published, but few of these contain complete electrocardiographic studies. 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