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3.1.10 - Pericardial Disease

from Section 3.1 - Cardiac and Circulatory Failure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Ned Gilbert-Kawai
Affiliation:
The Royal Liverpool Hospital
Debashish Dutta
Affiliation:
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow
Carl Waldmann
Affiliation:
Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
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Summary

Key Learning Points

  1. 1. Pericardial effusions may cause haemodynamic compromise if large or rapidly developing.

  2. 2. Echocardiography is the most important clinical tool for assessing cardiac tamponade.

  3. 3. Typical clinical signs of cardiac tamponade may be absent in post-cardiac surgery patients.

  4. 4. Transoesophageal echocardiography is more sensitive than transthoracic echocardiography in post-cardiac surgical patients in the diagnosis of cardiac tamponade.

  5. 5. Extreme caution should be taken prior to intubating or initiating positive pressure ventilation in patients with cardiac tamponade.

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Intensive Care Medicine
The Essential Guide
, pp. 128 - 131
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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References and Further Reading

Adler, Y, Charron, P, Imazio, M, et al. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by: The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Eur Heart J 2015;36:2921–64.Google Scholar
Bodson, L, Bouferrache, K, Vieillard-Baron, A. Cardiac tamponade. Curr Opin Crit Care 2011;17:416–24.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Imazio, M, Adler, Y. Management of pericardial effusion. Eur Heart J 2013;34:1186–97.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Klein, AL, Abbara, S, Agler, DA, et al. American Society of Echocardiography clinical recommendations for multimodality cardiovascular imaging of patients with pericardial disease: endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2013;26:965–1012 e15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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