ALLMedicine™ Pericardiocentesis Center

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Pericardial effusion can dangerously precipitate patient's hemodynamic stability and requires prompt intervention in case of tamponade. We investigated potential predictors of in-hospital mortality, a composite outcome of in-hospital mortality, pe...

Feb 16th, 2021 - Pericardiocentesis is traditionally performed using a subxiphoid approach. Hepatomegaly or loculated and noncircumferential effusions warrant nonstandard approaches to drain effusions; echocardiographic guidance has made these less traditional, no...

Feb 6th, 2021 - A 51-year-old woman with pseudomyxoma peritonei developed cardiac arrest 5 days after surgery. Acute echocardiography demonstrated pericardial tamponade. Emergency pericardiocentesis evacuated milky fluid and circulation was re-established. Analys...

Jan 30th, 2021 - Pericardial Decompression Syndrome (PDS) is an uncommon but life-threatening complication following pericardiocentesis for cardiac tamponade. We report PDS after pericardiocentesis in two patients that presented to the emergency department with ca...

Jan 29th, 2021 - Pericardiocentesis is frequently performed when fluid needs to be removed from the pericardial sac, for both therapeutic and diagnostic purposes, however, it can still be a high-risk procedure in inexperienced hands and/or an emergent setting. A 7...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Pericardial effusion can dangerously precipitate patient's hemodynamic stability and requires prompt intervention in case of tamponade. We investigated potential predictors of in-hospital mortality, a composite outcome of in-hospital mortality, pe...

Feb 16th, 2021 - Pericardiocentesis is traditionally performed using a subxiphoid approach. Hepatomegaly or loculated and noncircumferential effusions warrant nonstandard approaches to drain effusions; echocardiographic guidance has made these less traditional, no...

Feb 6th, 2021 - A 51-year-old woman with pseudomyxoma peritonei developed cardiac arrest 5 days after surgery. Acute echocardiography demonstrated pericardial tamponade. Emergency pericardiocentesis evacuated milky fluid and circulation was re-established. Analys...

Jan 30th, 2021 - Pericardial Decompression Syndrome (PDS) is an uncommon but life-threatening complication following pericardiocentesis for cardiac tamponade. We report PDS after pericardiocentesis in two patients that presented to the emergency department with ca...

Jan 29th, 2021 - Pericardiocentesis is frequently performed when fluid needs to be removed from the pericardial sac, for both therapeutic and diagnostic purposes, however, it can still be a high-risk procedure in inexperienced hands and/or an emergent setting. A 7...

Nov 10th, 2017 - Pericardiocentesis In the event of obstructive shock or pulseless electric activity with visualized or suspected tamponade, pericardiocentesis is considered standard of care. There are many approaches to performing a pericardiocentesis, including.

Oct 24th, 2017 - A patient with Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) came to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Australia, after 2 weeks of dyspnea. He was diagnosed with cardiac tamponade and received urgent pericardiocentesis.

Dec 18th, 2014 - Action Points Rifamycin for 3 months or more in patients with latent TB was efficacious at preventing active TB, potentially more so than isoniazid alone. In patients with tuberculous pericarditis, most of whom also had HIV, prednisolone did not h...

Sep 2nd, 2014 - Neither standard anti-inflammatory therapy using prednisolone nor an experimental immunotherapy using Mycobacterium indicus pranii injections reduced the composite outcome of death, cardiac tamponade requiring pericardiocentesis, or constrictive p.