Cardiac tamponade

in anaerobic metabolism since there is limited supply of oxygen. The anaerobic respiration produces a lot of carbon dioxide together with the inherent accumulations of lactic acid in the tissues (Morgan & Wheeler, 2013). There is impedance in the cardiac filling with shift in pressures between right and left ventricles, thus causing inadequate filling of the ventricle responsible for blood output. In this case,…

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facial expression in pain and compliant of left side chest pain. Immediately continue vital sign checked and obtain hypotension and tachycardia, sign of cardiac tamponade. I’m as a team leader for that shift immediately put patient in trendelenburg position ,fluid challenge normal saline ,instruct team member to prepare procedure assist in cardiac tamponade tapping and informed doctor to come urgently. From here, apply this empirical…

Complications Cardiac catheterization is categorized as an invasive procedure that involves the heart, its valves, and coronary arteries, in addition to femoral artery which is a large artery. Cardiac catheterization complications can be classified in to cardiac and vascular complications.…

place. His blood pressure and urine output have fallen after one hour admission to the ICU. He has no signs of ischaemia, tamponade and acute MI. He is tachycardic, having mild pulmonary oedema, RG is diagnosed to have cardiogenic shock because he had shown the pathophysiology of cardiogenic shock. He had shown decrease in cardiac output and low organ perfusion. Decrease in cardiac output will subsequently…

Pericardial Cysts are very rare benign congenital anomalies of the anterior and middle mediastinum with incidence of about 1 in 100,000. 60% are discovered between the ages of 30 to 50 and over 75% of them are right-sided, 22% are left-sided, while the rest are in the posterior or anterior superior mediastinum. Pericardial Cysts are thought to result from the failure of fusion of one of the mesenchymal lacunae that forms the pericardial sac, unfortunately due to the lack of research the true…

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia with a significant impact in morbidity and mortality (1). One of the well-established treatments for symptomatic atrial fibrillation is catheter-based ablation (2). AF ablation is a complex interventional procedure associated with potential risk of thromboembolic complications as periprocedural stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) and cardiac tamponade (1, 2). Approximately, from 0 to 7 % of AF patients undergoing…

When the capillary refill on the hands that are cold, clammy, and pale to begin with, with results lasting more than 1 or 2 seconds, this indicates vessel constriction or decreased cardiac output found in patients that are dehydrated or hypovolemic, with heart failure, or in shock (Jarvis, 2012). Tenting of the skin or receding slowly of the skin when pinched is a way to check for skin turgor which is indicative of severe dehydration…

amebic liver abscess. The abscess in right lobe rupture through the diaphragm to cause pleural effusion and atelectasis. Pericardial amebiasis is a complication that causes fever, abdominal pain, chest pain, heart failure, acute perforation with cardiac tamponade and shock. Cerebral amoebiasis can result death within 12-72 hours without treatment. It shows symptoms of mental states and amebic brain abscess. Rectovaginal fistulas and vulvar lesions cause genitourinary amebiasis in females and…

echocardiography helped us in timely intervention in 02 cases of cardiac tamponade and Left ventricular thrombus. Most of the patients who were referred were for chest pain were assessed by basic history, physical examination augmented by ECG, Cardiac enzymes , 2D echocardiography and tread mill test which were performed before retuning vast majority of patients to units similar to the study carried out by Sullenberger and Gentkesk8. Patients with cardiac disease were transferred to…