Pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life

In these video clinical images, the authors present the cause for an elderly gentleman’s shortness of breath. It was presumed to be an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a condition for which he was in the process of being evaluated. However, bedside ultrasonography revealed a la...

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Autores principales: Rosario, Javier, Mangal, Rohan, Houck, Jessica, Slome, Mary Cate, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-019-0257-4
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author Rosario, Javier
Mangal, Rohan
Houck, Jessica
Slome, Mary Cate
Ganti, Latha
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description In these video clinical images, the authors present the cause for an elderly gentleman’s shortness of breath. It was presumed to be an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a condition for which he was in the process of being evaluated. However, bedside ultrasonography revealed a large pericardial effusion with tamponade. This timely diagnosis resulted in the patient being taken expeditiously to the operating room and saving his life.
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spelling pubmed-69882962020-02-03 Pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life Rosario, Javier Mangal, Rohan Houck, Jessica Slome, Mary Cate Ganti, Latha Int J Emerg Med Clinical Image In these video clinical images, the authors present the cause for an elderly gentleman’s shortness of breath. It was presumed to be an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a condition for which he was in the process of being evaluated. However, bedside ultrasonography revealed a large pericardial effusion with tamponade. This timely diagnosis resulted in the patient being taken expeditiously to the operating room and saving his life. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6988296/ /pubmed/31992190 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-019-0257-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life
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title_full_unstemmed Pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life
title_short Pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life
title_sort pericardial effusion with tamponade: bedside ultrasonography saves another life
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-019-0257-4
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