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    contraindications to pericardiocentesis in emergency situations where a patient is hemodynamically unstable. Pericardiocentesis is a one-off procedure...
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    diagnosis, although chest X-ray and EKG are also often performed. Pericardiocentesis may be diagnostic as well as therapeutic (form of treatment). Pericardial...
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    pressure on the heart preventing the ventricles from filling correctly. Pericardiocentesis is a procedure used to remove the pericardial fluid from the pericardial...
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    facilities to provide pericardiocentesis, which can be life-saving. If the person has already suffered a cardiac arrest, pericardiocentesis alone cannot ensure...
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    chest X-ray or a chest ultrasound, and is most commonly treated with pericardiocentesis. While hemopericardium itself is not deadly, it can lead to cardiac...
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    diagnosis or to relieve tamponade using a syringe in a procedure called pericardiocentesis. Some people are born with hearts that are abnormal and these abnormalities...
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    favored because they increase the chance of recurrent pericarditis pericardiocentesis to treat a large pericardial effusion causing tamponade Recurrent...
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    potentially misinterpret it as an abnormality. In the context of pericardiocentesis, a medical procedure involving the aspiration of fluid from the pericardium...
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    pericarditis include antibiotic therapy, with potential adjuncts such as pericardiocentesis or pericardial window when cardiac compromise is evident. Purulent...
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    diagnosis or to relieve tamponade using a syringe in a procedure called pericardiocentesis. For cases of recurrent pericardial effusion, an operation to create...
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    pneumothorax, hemothorax, cardiac tamponade, hypoxia Treatment Thoracotomy, thoracostomy, fluid resuscitation, decompression, pericardiocentesis Prognosis Poor...
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  • peripheral resistance Obstructive shock Cardiac tamponade Beck's triad Pericardiocentesis/Thoracotomy with pericardial window Tension pneumothorax Thoracentesis/Chest...
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    is true. Roussimoff had severe pericardial effusion and underwent pericardiocentesis at Duke University Hospital in the 1980s. Roussimoff died at age 46...
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    body to function. A less common procedure that may be employed is a pericardiocentesis which by removing blood surrounding the heart, permits the heart to...
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    via direct laryngoscopy and use of magill forceps Thorocostomy and pericardiocentesis to relieve pneumothorax and pericardial tamponade Intravenous (IV)...
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  • monocentric, neocentromere, orthocenter, orthocentric, paracentesis, pericardiocentesis, technocentric, technocentrism, telocentric, thoracentesis, thoracocentesis...
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    cricothyrotomy Needle or finger thoracostomy of tension pneumothorax Pericardiocentesis Advanced medication administration through parenteral and enteral...
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    paracentesis or ascitic drain; and for pericardial effusion with pericardiocentesis. While absence of malignant cells on cytology does not completely...
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    other cardiac abnormalities, especially in latter trimesters, but pericardiocentesis is useful technique to reduce pleural effusion or/ and secondary disorders...
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    Pericardial tamponade as well as treating pericardial tamponade via pericardiocentesis has shown to cause pulmonary edema as a result of increased left-sided...
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    interpretation, capnography, cardioversion, transcutaneous pacing, pericardiocentesis, thoracostomy, ultrasonography, and blood chemistry interpretation...
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    cardiac monitoring, 12-lead ECG interpretation, ultrasound, intubation, pericardiocentesis, cardioversion, thoracostomy, and other skills such as performing...
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  • Countess escalates when Isobel pressures Dr. Clarkson to perform pericardiocentesis on a patient suffering from dropsy. Violet objects, believing the...
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    Valve-sparing aortic root replacement LeCompte maneuver Other Pericardium Pericardiocentesis Pericardial window Pericardiectomy Myocardium Cardiomyoplasty Dor...
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  • tamponade is treated through needle or surgical decompression. Needle pericardiocentesis can be done at the bedside. This is often the preferred therapy. A...
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    (1994). "Cardiac Tamponade Complicating Proximal Aortic Dissection. Is Pericardiocentesis Harmful?". Circulation. 90 (5): 2375–2378. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.90.5...
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    pumping action, requiring removal using a needle under the breast bone (pericardiocentesis); hematoma at the site(s) of the puncture(s); induction of a dangerous...
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  • Diagnosis often requires a range of diagnostic tools, including pericardiocentesis, biochemical tests, and imaging. Treatment of this disease is similar...
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  • yellow-orange salt Pyrolytic chromium carbide coating, by vacuum deposition Pericardiocentesis, a procedure where fluid is aspirated from the pericardium Pheochromocytoma...
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  • monocentric, neocentromere, orthocenter, orthocentric, paracentesis, pericardiocentesis, technocentric, technocentrism, telocentric, thoracentesis, thoracocentesis...
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