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Echocardiographically-guided percutaneous pericardiocentesis is a simple, safe, and cost-effective method for the initial and sometimes definitive treatment of threatening cardiac tamponade.
Percutaneous echocardiographically guided pericardiocentesis is described as a simple, safe, and cost-effective bedside method for managing hemodynamically significant pericardial effusion without the need for surgery.
May support echo-guided pericardiocentesis as surgical alternative; Level 5 evidence leaves open confirmatory RCTs.
Percutaneous echocardiographically guided pericardiocentesis is a simple, safe and cost-effective method that could be carried out next to the patient's bed at any hospital. For greater number of patients it makes the initial and for some definite therapy of the threatening heart catheterisation and/or haemodynamically significant pericardial effusion, without need for surgical treatment.
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Aleksandar Lazarević (2004) conducted a review in Cardiac tamponade and hemodynamically significant pericardial effusion. Echocardiographically-guided pericardiocentesis was evaluated. Echocardiographically-guided percutaneous pericardiocentesis is a simple, safe, and cost-effective method for the initial and sometimes definitive treatment of threatening cardiac tamponade.
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