Cardiac tamponade: new technology masking an old nemesis.
case_report · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24580918.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.06.126.
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Abstract
A 16-year-old male patient underwent bilateral pulmonary embolectomy complicated by reperfusion injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support using a bicaval double-lumen catheter. A unique hemodynamic profile developed consistent with tamponade but without an associated decrease in venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation pump flow, improved venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit preload, and decreased recirculation. The use of newer bicaval double-lumen catheters can result in old problems presenting in new ways and require clinicians to be ever vigilant.
Medical subject headings
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation