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Your Patient Is a 15-Year-Old Male Who Was Struck in the Chest

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Your patient is a 15-year-old male who was struck in the chest with a baseball. He is unresponsive, pulseless, and apneic. The monitor shows ventricular fibrillation. This condition is most accurately described as:


A) pericardial tamponade.
B) blunt cardiac injury.
C) commotio cordis.
D) traumatic asphyxia.

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