CVT Surgical Center - Services: Cardiac - Pericardial Window
Creation of a pericardial window is used to drain fluid from the pericardial sac around the heart. The approach may be below the sternum through a...
Subxiphoid pericardial window for pericardial effusion in end ...
Fifty-seven patients with end-stage renal disease who were on maintenance dialysis underwent pericar...
- November 1, 2002 - American Family Physician
For continuous drainage, a catheter may be left in the pericardial sac, or a pericardial window may be created surgically. Pericardiocentesis may result in...
TRAUMA.ORG: Permissive Hypotension
Some confusion seems to be present here- -neither a pericardiocentesis nor a pericardial window are therapeutic maneuvers, only diagnostic ones- -blood in the...
eMedicine - Pericarditis, Constrictive-Effusive : Article by ...
Recognition of effusive-constrictive pericarditis is clinically important because treatment with a pericardiocentesis or a pericardial window may be...
CTSN- Pericardium and Tamponade Text
Pericardial window is indicated for acute tamponade or when significant symptoms do not resolve after 7-10 days of intensive medical therapy...
Pericardial Window
Pericardial Window
