Cardiac tamponade occurs when a pericardial effusion exerts a significant amount of pressure externally on the heart, resulting in impaired right ventricular filling eventually causing decreased ...

Prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy is a feasible option for traumatic cardiac arrest, especially when performed within ...

Researchers from an international collaborative team have found that prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is feasible ...

of mercury. There were, however, individual variations in technic in the preparation, positioning and maintenance of the balloon tamponade. The Sengstaken-Blakemore tube was employed on 81 ...

These symptoms can occur with various heart concerns, but they are most commonly associated with a condition called cardiac tamponade. Cardiac tamponade causes a build-up of a large amount of ...