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Cardiac tamponade by aortic dissection in a hospital without cardiothoracic surgery
A García-Jiménez1, A Peraza Torres, G Martínez López
1Intensive Care Unit, Hospital, Arquitecto Marcide, El Ferrol, Spain.
Chest
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 48-year-old male patient had arrest due to rupture of a dissecting aneurysm of the thoracic aorta into the pericardial cavity with tamponade; he received treatment in a general hospital lacking the facilities to practice heart surgery. The patient was treated by means of intermittent pericardial drainage while being transferred to another hospital at 100-km distance for surgical treatment.