Cardiac Tamponade
Overview of the disorder:
What causes it?
- An aortic aneurysm
- final stage of lung cancer
- A heart attack
- Heart surgery
- Pericarditis, or another form of a viral/bacterial infection
- Heart tumors
- Some evasive heart procedures
Incidence
Symptoms
When one may have this condition they may be experiencing the following:
- Rapid Breathing
- Sharp pain in the chest, neck, shoulder, back, or possibly the abdomen
- Swelling of the abdomen, or other areas of the midsection
- Fainting/feeling light-headed
- Grey or pale blue skin
- Weak or absent pulse
- Fever
- Elevated pressure on the veins/arteries closest to the heart
CT Scan Machine
Small Overview of the Condition
Slowed Heart Rate
How do they find it?
Possible Prevention?
Treatment Options
- Pericardiocentesis, which is the insertion of a needle into the chest to suck up the fluid.
- A surgical pericardiectomy, the removal of a section of the pericardium, this will ultimately release the trapped fluid.
- Oxygen may be given to the patient in order to decrease the need for blood flow and this can eventually cause the fluid to leave the area.
Resources
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