✦ LIBER ✦
Indwelling pericardial drainage catheter break secondary to heart movement and catheter angulation
✍ Scribed by Johnson, C. Timothy ;Osborn, Larry A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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✦ Synopsis
Pericardiocentesis has been performed for over 150 years. The complication rate for blind pericardiocentesis prior to the widespread application of echocardiography in 1982 varied from 7-19%, and the death rate from 0-19% [1][2][3][4][5]. Several recent studies using echocardiographic or fluoroscopic guidance have reported a lower