Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 272-280 , March 2010

Gastric perforation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Review of the literature

  • Isabelle Spoormans

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium
    • ,
  • Kim Van Hoorenbeeck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium
    • ,
  • Lee Balliu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium
    • ,
  • Philippe G. Jorens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 3 821 36 39; fax: +32 3 828 48 82.

Received 14 July 2009 ,Revised 13 November 2009 ,Accepted 16 November 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.023.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00628-5

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.023

Resuscitation
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