Prolonged distress and clinical deterioration before pericardial drainage in patients with cardiac tamponade

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 331-336

  Larose, Eric ^a   Ducharme, Anique ^a   Mercier, Lise Andrée ^a   Pelletier, Guy ^a   Harel, François ^a   Tardif, Jean Claude ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Diagnosis; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; COUGHING; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; PARADOXICAL PULSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034083342     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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