Population
A patient with extrapericardial cardiac tamponade following inadvertent infusion of intravenous fluids into…
Design
Case_report
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Alerts clinicians to mediastinal extravasation in unexplained tamponade; case reports leave open incidence and prevention strategies.
Highlights a rare cause of cardiac tamponade (extrapericardial compression from IV fluid infusion) and the importance of differentiating it from intrapericardial tamponade.
W. Peter Geis (1970) studied this question.
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