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Ep 166 Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade

Emergency Medicine Cases

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Do You Have a Pulmonary Pulse and You Feel It Dropping With Inspiration?

Patients with tampanad look really terrible. They're really acutely ill. And in my experience, you often have a palpable inspiratory fall in blood pressure. Just put your fingers on the radial or brachial pulse and just watch the a breath in and out. Often the patients are tihypniac,. If you're careful enough, i think the fingers are probably it's easier to do this than with a sigma manometer. Takes 30 seconds or a minute. You'll see a thing is squished right in. In the presence of a swinging heart with loss of fluid, that tells you your heart is about to stop producing any outflow at all. It occurs

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