contraindications to pericardiocentesis in emergency situations where a patient is hemodynamically unstable. Pericardiocentesis is a one-off procedure...

pressure on the heart preventing the ventricles from filling correctly. Pericardiocentesis is a procedure used to remove the pericardial fluid from the pericardial...

diagnosis, although chest X-ray and EKG are also often performed. Pericardiocentesis may be diagnostic as well as therapeutic (form of treatment). Pericardial...

facilities to provide pericardiocentesis, which can be life-saving. If the person has already suffered a cardiac arrest, pericardiocentesis alone cannot ensure...

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...

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...

potentially misinterpret it as an abnormality. In the context of pericardiocentesis, a medical procedure involving the aspiration of fluid from the pericardium...

favored because they increase the chance of recurrent pericarditis pericardiocentesis to treat a large pericardial effusion causing tamponade Recurrent...

pericarditis include antibiotic therapy, with potential adjuncts such as pericardiocentesis or pericardial window when cardiac compromise is evident. Purulent...

diagnosis or to relieve tamponade using a syringe in a procedure called pericardiocentesis. For cases of recurrent pericardial effusion, an operation to create...