Emergency department echocardiography in the diagnosis and therapy of cardiac tamponade

Bruce Mazurek; Dietrich Jehle; Marcus Martin

doi:10.1016/0736-4679(91)90528-N

Emergency department echocardiography in the diagnosis and therapy of cardiac tamponade

Bruce Mazurek
, Dietrich Jehle
, Marcus Martin

Department of Emergency Medicine

West Penn Allegheny Health System

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Abstract

A 44-year-old male presented to the emergency department in shock with jugular venous distension and upper chest cyanosis. Superior vena cava syndrome was ruled out by computed tomography (CT scan). However, a large pericardial effusion was found on CT scan and confirmed by sonography. Pericardial tamponade was diagnosed by emergency physicians and sonography-guided pericardiocentesis was performed with marked improvement in symptomatology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	27-31
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume	9
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0736-4679(91)90528-N
State	Published - 1991

Keywords

cardiac tamponade
emergency department sonography

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