Cardiac tamponade and clinical acumen

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 82-84

  Wijesuriya, Shanelle ^a   Vuylsteke, Alain ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; NONHUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PARADOXICAL PULSE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TECHNOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79958709906     PISSN: 09719784     EISSN: 09745181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9784.81560     Document Type: Review

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