[Experience of surgical treatment of the heart and pericardium wounds].
Results of treatment of 120 injured persons with the heart and pericardium wounding were analysed. Issues of diagnosis and treatment of the heart and pericardium wounding were reviewed. Efficacy of treatment of the heart and pericardium wounding depends on the time gap between the trauma moment and the specialized surgical aid delivery. Diagnostic measures for the possible heart and pericardium wounding ought to be minimal. The established heart and pericardium wounding diagnosis, and sometimes the possibility of such wounding, constitute indication for performance of urgent operative intervention. All the heart woundings must be sutured and pericardial cavity drained.