Key result
Point-of-care ultrasonography successfully identified signs of pneumopericardium, including bright spots and comet-tail artifacts, in a patient presenting with respiratory distress.
Case Report (n=1)
Point-of-care ultrasonography can rapidly identify pneumopericardium at the bedside in patients presenting with respiratory distress.
May aid bedside pericardial assessment in respiratory distress; hypothesis-generating case report requiring prospective validation.
Focused cardiac ultrasound by the emergency physician has become a fundamental tool to expedite the diagnostic evaluation of the patient at bedside. We report the case of a patient admitted to the emergency department for respiratory distress. He was examined by an emergency physician who performed a bedside echocardiography. Bright spots were seen rapidly moving along the pericardial layer during diastole with comet-tail artifacts extending across the whole image of the heart and disappearing during systole, suggesting pneumopericardium.
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Bobbia et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Respiratory distress and pneumopericardium (n=1). Point-of-care ultrasonography was evaluated on Diagnosis of pneumopericardium. Point-of-care ultrasonography successfully identified signs of pneumopericardium, including bright spots and comet-tail artifacts, in a patient presenting with respiratory distress.
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