Acute cardiac tamponade secondary to nonpenetrating injury from gunshot with beanbag round: A case report and literature review

Grant Schalet; Brooke Davis; Mario Gomez; Timothy Dickhudt; Ivan Puente

doi:10.1016/j.tcr.2022.100733

Acute cardiac tamponade secondary to nonpenetrating injury from gunshot with beanbag round: A case report and literature review

Trauma Case Rep. 2022 Nov 3:42:100733. doi: 10.1016/j.tcr.2022.100733. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Grant Schalet¹, Brooke Davis¹, Mario Gomez², Timothy Dickhudt², Ivan Puente²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316, United States of America.
² Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316, United States of America.

Abstract

Over the past twenty years, "less-lethal" munitions have caused a variety of significant, life-threatening injuries. However, evidence of blunt cardiac injury due to these weapons is sparse. A healthy 44-year old man presented with hemodynamic instability due to cardiac tamponade after he was shot with a beanbag, ultimately requiring operative intervention. This case report describes a unique clinical presentation of blunt cardiac injury and the diagnostic and therapeutic steps that the trauma surgery team took to appropriately manage this rare injury.

Keywords: Beanbag round; Blunt cardiac trauma; Cardiac tamponade; Less-lethal munitions; Trauma.

Publication types

Case Reports