Focused emergency echocardiography: Lifesaving tool for a 14-year-old girl suffering out-of-hospital pulseless electrical activity arrest because of cardiac tamponade

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-105

  Steiger, Holger V ^a,b   Rimbach, Klaus ^b   Müller, Edgar ^b   Breitkreutz, Raoul ^c  

^a KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^b Darmstadt Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced life support; Cardiac arrest; Cardiac tamponade; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Focused echocardiography; Paediatric; Pericardial effusion; Periresuscitation care; Prehospital; Resuscitation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOSIS; DEFIBRILLATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SYNCOPE; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 67649882509     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32830a998c     Document Type: Article

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