Cardiac tamponade

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• Synonyms

  • Tamponade

• Causes

  • Pericardial effusion
  • Haemopericardium
  • Chronic constrictive pericarditis
  • Restrictive cardiomyopathy

• Effects

  • Heart failure
  • Pulsus paradoxux
  • Kussmaul sign
  • Beck's triad
  • Electrical alternans
  • Raised jugular venous pressure
  • Right ventricular failure
  • Asystole

• Parents

  • Pericardial disease

• Description

  • "ECG is diagnostic "