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Using a human cardiovascular-respiratory model to characterize cardiac tamponade and pulsus paradoxus
BACKGROUND: Cardiac tamponade is a condition whereby fluid accumulation in the pericardial sac surrounding the heart causes elevation and equilibration of pericardial and cardiac chamber pressures, reduced cardiac output, changes in hemodynamics, partial chamber collapse, pulsus paradoxus, and arter...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19656411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-6-15 |