Journals / Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences / 2013 / Cilt: 43 - Sayı: 6
How do we safely treat pneumopericardium in a severely ill baby?
- Pages
- 1050–1051
- DOI
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Abstract
Tension pneumopericardium in an infant is a rare but potentially fatal event. In the present study, we describe a new technique to drain the air from the pericardial sac of a critically ill baby. We performed this drainage via the subxiphoid approach in the Trendelenburg position rather than the anti-Trendelenburg position.
Özet
Tension pneumopericardium in an infant is a rare but potentially fatal event. In the present study, we describe a new technique to drain the air from the pericardial sac of a critically ill baby. We performed this drainage via the subxiphoid approach in the Trendelenburg position rather than the anti-Trendelenburg position.