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  2. Pericardiocentesis - Wikipedia

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    Pericardiocentesis can be used to diagnose and treat cardiac tamponade. [3] [4] Cardiac tamponade is a medical emergency in which excessive accumulation of fluid within the pericardium (pericardial effusion) creates increased pressure. [5] This prevents the heart from filling normally with blood.

  3. Cardiac tamponade - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac tamponade, also known as pericardial tamponade (/ ˌ t æ m. p ə ˈ n eɪ d / [4]), is a compression of the heart due to pericardial effusion (the build-up of pericardial fluid in the sac around the heart). [2] Onset may be rapid or gradual. [2]

  4. Purulent pericarditis - Wikipedia

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    Purulent Pericarditis; Echocardiogram showing pericardial effusion with signs of cardiac tamponade: Specialty: Cardiology: Symptoms: substernal chest pain (exacerbated supine and with breathing deeply), dyspnea, fever, rigors/chills, and cardiorespiratory signs (i.e., tachycardia, friction rub, pulsus paradoxus, pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade, pleural effusion)

  5. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Wikipedia

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    ICD-9-CM Volume 3 is a system of procedural codes used by health insurers to classify medical procedures for billing purposes. It is a subset of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) 9-CM.

  6. Hs and Ts - Wikipedia

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    Ultrasound: Cardiac ultrasonography for any pericardial effusion that may be causing a cardiac tamponade, as well as any right ventricle dilatation that may indicate a massive pulmonary embolism. Bilateral lung ultrasonography to look for lung sliding and rule out a tension pneumothorax .

  7. Tamponade - Wikipedia

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    A very large hemorrhagic pericardial effusion due to malignancy as seen on ultrasound which was causing tamponade. closed arrow: the heart, open arrow: the effusion. Tamponade (/ ˌ t æ m. p ə ˈ n eɪ d / [1]) is the closure or blockage (as of a wound or body cavity) by or as if by a tampon, especially to stop bleeding. [2]

  8. Pericardial effusion - Wikipedia

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    A pericardial effusion with enough pressure to adversely affect heart function is called cardiac tamponade. [1] Pericardial effusions can cause cardiac tamponade in acute settings with fluid as little as 150mL. In chronic settings, however, fluid can accumulate anywhere up to 2L before an effusion causes cardiac tamponade.

  9. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma - Wikipedia

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    Focused assessment with sonography in trauma (commonly abbreviated as FAST) is a rapid bedside ultrasound examination performed by surgeons, emergency physicians, and paramedics as a screening test for blood around the heart (pericardial effusion) or abdominal organs (hemoperitoneum) after trauma.