of mercury. There were, however, individual variations in technic in the preparation, positioning and maintenance of the balloon tamponade. The Sengstaken-Blakemore tube was employed on 81 ...

Cardiac tamponade must be treated in a timely manner or else it is fatal. Pericardiocentesis and pericardial windows are both valid treatment options (2). However, it is important to recognize that ...

except in cases with repeated recurrences with cardiac tamponade and evidence of serious steroid toxicity, although other approaches may be equally effective and less invasive (e.g., pericardial ...

there is also much information to be obtained by examining the waveforms of the central venous pressure tracing. Examples are given of rhythm disorders, tricuspid regurgitation, cardiac tamponade ...

He ultimately succumbed to his illness and died on hospital day 142 (Table 1). Cardiac tamponade is most often precipitated by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial space, and thus, the gold ...