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| | Cardiac tamponade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Chronic cardiac tamponade is a slower process in which up to two litres of fluid can enter the pericardial space over a period of time, and the pericardium stretches to accommodate the volume. | | | Cardiac tamponade can happen acutely, such as from a stab wound, from surgical complications, or from heart muscle rupture. | | | A paradoxical pulse may also present in cardiac tamponade. |
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| | Cardiac arrest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Internal cardiac massage, an ACLS procedure performed by emergency medicine physicians requires splitting open the rib cage, which is painful during the weeks of recovery. | | | This is relieved in an emergency by inserting a needle into the 2nd intercostal space at the mid-clavicular line, releasing the air and the pressure on the thoracic organs. | | | The incidence of CHD in individuals who suffer sudden cardiac death is between 64 and 90%. |
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| | Penetrating Cardiac Trauma |
| | This distribution of injuries is due to the disparate exposure of the cardiac chambers to the anterior surface of the chest. | | | In the 19th century, cardiac injuries were considered to be inoperable, and as recently as the middle of this century conservative management of cardiac injury was advocated. | | | The anatomic position of the heart in relation to the anterior chest wall is critical in determining which areas of the heart are most commonly affected by penetrating cardiac trauma. |
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| | CARDIAC TAMPONADE |
| | Cardiac tamponade is compression of the heart by fluid within the pericardium, impairing the heart's ability to relax after contraction. | | | Pericardial tamponade can be acute, or sudden, and usually results from trauma such as a penetrating knife wound or from a motor vehicle accident, with the chest hitting the steering wheel and resulting in a tear of the main artery leaving the heart (aortic dissection). | | | Understand that pericardial tamponade does not allow the heart muscle to relax after it contracts. |
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| | Cardiac Tamponade and Pericardiocentisis |
| | Cardiac tamponade occurs in less than two percent of all patients with chest trauma. | | | Cardiac tamponade is a rare but fatal clinical problem. | | | Patients with blunt trauma have a low incidence of cardiac tamponade. |
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http://www.merginet.com/clinical/cardiac/Tamponade.cfm
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| | eMedicine - Cardiac Tamponade : Article by Chakri Yarlagadda, MD, FACC |
| | The role of medication therapy in cardiac tamponade is limited. | | | Pericardiodesis or sclerosing the pericardium: This is a therapeutic option for patients with recurrent pericardial effusion or tamponade. | | | However, this classic triad is usually observed in patients with acute cardiac tamponade. |
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| | Oncology Nursing Society. |
| | People with cancer may experience pericardial effusions and cardiac tamponade caused by nonmalignant conditions, although the incidence is less compared to malignant causes. | | | Supportive care of patients with cardiac tamponade includes ongoing pharmacologic therapy to maintain blood pressure and cardiac functioning during all treatment modalities (Uaje et al., 1996). | | | Under guidance by either cardiac catheterization or 2-D echo, a needle is inserted percutaneously into the pericardial sac to aspirate the fluid and decompress the tamponade. |
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| | Pathology Image Gallery |
| | This type of acute cardiac tamponade is usually fatal unless the pericardial pressure is quickly relieved either by needle pericardiocentesis or surgery. | | | Rapidly developing pericardial hemorrhage illustrated in this image (usually due to sudden aortic or cardiac rupture) enlarges the cardiac silhouette on the chest x-ray, compresses the vena cava, prevents diastolic filling of the cardiac chambers, severely reduces cardiac output and produces the often fatal syndrome of cardiac tamponade. | | | (Ruptures can also affect infarcts of the interventricular septum or papillary muscles.) A free wall rupture develops in a transmural acute MI in the weakened, soft, necrotic and inflammed myocardium and it results in hemopericardium and cardiac tamponade. |
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| | AccessMedicine - Harrison's Internal Medicine: Acute Pericarditis |
| | Differentiation from cardiac enlargement may be difficult on physical examination, but heart sounds tend to become faint with pericardial effusion; the friction rub may disappear, and the apex impulse may vanish, but sometimes it remains palpable, albeit medial to the left border of cardiac dullness. | | | Pain, a pericardial friction rub, electrocardiographic changes, and pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade and paradoxical pulse are cardinal manifestations of many forms of acute pericarditis. | | | In acute pericarditis, effusion is usually associated with pain and/or the above-mentioned ECG changes characteristic of pericarditis and an enlargement of the cardiac silhouette. |
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| | Cardiac Tamponade - Patient UK |
| | He pioneered emergency surgery to restart hearts (open cardiac massage), defining a precise sequence of steps for the management of cardiac arrest in the operating room, and was the first to use an electrical defibrillator successfully directly applied to the heart of a 14 yr old boy in 1947. | | | Cardiac Tamponade - Patient UK PatientPlus articles are written for doctors and so the language can be technical. | | | Echocardiographically guided pericardiocentesis.: removal of pericardial fluid is the definitive therapy for tamponade |
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| | Cardiac Tamponade AHealthyMe.com |
| | Blunt or penetrating injury from trauma to the chest or heart can also result in cardiac tamponade when large amounts of blood fill the pericardium. | | | The most accurate way to identify this condition is by using a test called an echocardiogram. | | | You are here: Home > Health A to Z > Cardiac Tamponade |
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| | BenHDo2 |
| | Symptoms of cardiac tamponade include tachycardia, hypotension, neck vein distension, cardiac output decrease, mediastinal drainage decreases, pulsus paradoxus (the paradoxical fall of blood pressure when a person inhales), narrow pulse pressure, increase pulmonary artery pressure, absent heart sounds, chest pain, cyanosis, and cold extremities. | | | Furthermore, chest x-rays, coronary angiography, and ECG are also used as diagnostic tools for cardiac tamponade. | | | This condition causes a decrease in cardiac output despite countermechanisms such as peripheral vasoconstriction. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/biomed/bme403/Section_3/cardiac_tamponade.html
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| | Medical Encyclopedia: Cardiac tamponade (Print Version) |
| | Heart surgery, dissecting aortic aneurysm (thoracic), wounds to the heart, end-stage lung cancer, and acute MI can all lead to cardiac tamponade. | | | Other potential causes include heart tumors, kidney failure, recent heart attack, recent open heart surgery, recent invasive heart procedures, radiation therapy to the chest, hypothyroidism and systemic lupus erythematosus. | | | Updated by: Norman S. Kato, MD, Surgeon with the Cardiac Care Medical Group, Encino, CA. |
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| | Cardiac tamponade |
| | Compression of cardiac chambers by acute pressure on the heart from increased volume and pressure of the pericardial fluid | | | As fluid accumulates, pressure primarily affects the compliant cardiac wall and transmits the pressure transmurally, resulting in increased ventricular pressure. | | | Shoemaker WC, et al: Textbook of Critical Care. |
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| | Cardiac Tamponade -- eCureMe.com |
| | Fainting, lightheadedness, unconsciousness, or cardiac arrest may be present in the case of | | | This can reach dangerous levels in which the heart is no longer able to pump, resulting in | | | -- a life-threatening condition that may lead to cardiac arrest. |
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| | NEJM -- Elevated arterial blood pressure in cardiac tamponade |
| | Both groups had similar degrees of cardiac tamponade, as indicated by measurements of cardiac output and intrapericardial, right atrial, and pulmonary-artery wedge pressures. | | | Six of the 18 patients had systolic arterial blood pressures ranging from 150 to 210 mm Hg (mean [+/- SD], 176 +/- 26) and diastolic pressures ranging from 100 to 130 mm Hg (mean, 113 +/- 14). | | | Elevated blood pressure may occur in some patients with cardiac tamponade who have preexisting hypertension. |
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| | NEJM -- Acute Cardiac Tamponade |
| | traumatic tamponade is most apt to follow cardiac surgery, and | | | Mentzelopoulos, S. oufi, M., Kostopanagiotou, G. Infantile Major Airway Stenosis and Acute Respiratory Distress Associated with Cardiac Tamponade. | | | Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings. |
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| | Healthopedia.com - Cardiac Tamponade |
| | If the cardiac tamponade is not treated, you may die. | | | You are here : Healthopedia.com > Medical Encyclopedia > Diseases and Conditions > Cardiac Tamponade | | | Cardiac tamponade can occur after any of the following events or conditions. |
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| | Cardiac Tamponade |
| | State Medicine; Parenteral Nutrition / adverse effects; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Infant, Newborn; Fatal Outcome; England; Catheterization, Central Venous; Cardiac Tamponade; | | | Commissioned by the Chief Medical Officer of England and published in June 2001, the review covers the circumstances of each death and considers factors such as clinical issues, documentation, medical supervision, equipment, parental concerns and the NHS trust action. | | | This resource contains the full-text report of the review into the deaths of four babies due to cardiac tamponade associated with the presence of a central venous catheter, and the Government's response to the report. |
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| | Cardiology Advisor 2005.2: Cardiac Tamponade |
| | Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening condition caused by fluid under pressure around the heart. | | | Most people with cardiac tamponade have some shortness of breath. | | | Your health care provider will ask about your symptoms and examine you. |
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| | Cardiac tamponade definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Cardiac tamponade definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Cardiac tamponade: A life-threatening situation in which there is such a large amount of fluid (usually blood) inside the pericardial sac around the heart that it interferes with the performance of the heart. | | | MedicineNet Home > MedTerms medical dictionary A-Z List > Cardiac tamponade |
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| | CARDIAC TAMPONADE |
| | Tamponade may occur as a complication of dissecting thoracic aneurysm, pericarditis, renal failure, acute myocardial infarction, hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease (e.g. | | | Interference with the venous return of blood to the heart due to an extensive accumulation of blood in the pericardium (pericardial effusion). | | | Fluid in the pericardial sac is demonstrated by echocardiogram. |
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| | Cardiac tamponade |
| | Cardiac tamponade is an emergency condition; the inability of the heart to pump enough blood may eventually lead to heart failure. | | | Cardiac tamponade is a condition caused by too much fluid in the space between the heart and the sac that surrounds it, called the pericardium. | | | This fluid collection can put weight and pressure on the heart, which means that it cannot expand properly and so it does not fill with normal amounts of blood. |
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| | Cardiovascular Pathology |
| | Such a massive amount of hemorrhage can lead to cardiac tamponade. | | | An aortic dissection may lead to hemopericardium when blood dissects through the media proximally. |
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| | Cardiovascular Diseases |
| | Practice Guidelines for Prescribing ACE-Inhibitors in Heart Failure [JA Ker] - Family Practice, May 2002 (ZA) | | | Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade [VT Valley] - e-Medicine | | | About Heart Valves and Heart Valve Disease and Cardiac Valve Repair and Replacement - INOVA Heart Services |
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