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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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Autores principales: Ramachandran, Deepa, Luo, Chuan, Ma, Tony S, Clark, John W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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