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 ...

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 ...

However, survival varied significantly depending on the cause of TCA: 21% with cardiac tamponade, 1.9% with exsanguination, ...

Patients experiencing TCA from cardiac tamponade had a 21% survival rate, whereas those with exsanguination had 1.9% survival, and none with combined tamponade-exsanguination survived.

This can be found in cardiac tamponade or during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma exacerbations. The image above ― an arterial pressure waveform tracing, superimposed with the ...