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Early recognition and urgent pericardiocentesis successfully treated a typically fatal cardiac tamponade complicating a central venous catheter in a 23-year-old woman.
Early recognition and urgent pericardiocentesis are critical for survival in patients developing cardiac tamponade as a complication of central venous catheter insertion.
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Prompt pericardiocentesis may improve survival in catheter-related tamponade; single case leaves open need for incidence and prevention data.
Cardiac tamponade complicating central venous catheters is usually fatal. We present a 23 year old woman who developed cardiac tamponade 12 hours after the insertion of a subclavian line. Early recognition of this complication and urgent pericardiocentesis led to her survival.
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Chamsi‐Pasha et al. (1988) studied this question. Early recognition and urgent pericardiocentesis successfully treated a typically fatal cardiac tamponade complicating a central venous catheter in a 23-year-old woman.
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