Usually, the doctor identifies by, commonly known as Beck's triad, the three signs of cardiac tamponade: low blood pressure or pulse rate; extended neck veins; muffled heart sounds. Other tests ...

Cardiac tamponade complicating PCI can result in emergency surgery, myocardial infarction, or death ( Table III). The overall mortality rate associated with this clinical condition is very high (40%).

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 ...

A British doctor recounts the horrors he saw in Al-Aqsa hospital, the last hospital functioning in the central Gaza Strip ...

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of a condom as a tamponade for intrauterine pressure to stop massive postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Design and Setting: This prospective study was done in the ...

For example, UNICEF’s Côte d’Ivoire Country Office, produced a low-cost version of a uterine balloon tamponade device to treat postpartum hemorrhage, a condition involving heavy bleeding in ...

Biopsies of the heart, for example, can lead to complications such as arrythmias, cardiac tamponade, and heart valve injury. "In the case of the heart, if rejection happens it can cause damage to ...

Abbott and pro football player Damar Hamlin welcomed 11 people with cardiovascular conditions to the Abbott HeartMates team ...

What can be accomplished in the reduction of the mortality from wounds of the heart is ably demonstrated in a paper by Elkin 13 from the Department of Surgery at Emory University. Abstracts of the ...

AAP's Raghav Chadha undergoes vital surgery in London to prevent retinal detachment and potential blindness. One of the ...