Cardiac tamponade and pleural effusion complicating varicella: A case report

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 777-781

  Masood, Syed Asif ^a   Kiel, Ernest ^b   Akingbola, Olugbenga ^b   Green, Rebecca ^b   Hodges, Lisa ^a   Petterway, Gretchen ^a  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac tamponade; Pericardial window; Purulent pericarditis; Varicella

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CHICKENPOX; DEHYDRATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DEFECT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUPPURATION; TACHYPNEA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOLLOW UP; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACOSCOPY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CHICKENPOX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59849098858     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31818c2a5a     Document Type: Article

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