| 1. | Prompt diagnosis and treatment is the key to survival with tamponade.
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| 2. | Patients with cardiac tamponade and hemodynamic compromise should have emergency pericardiocentesis.
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| 3. | Pulmonary embolism and cardiac tamponade are considered forms of obstructive shock.
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| 4. | "Kendrick, she's in cardiac tamponade!
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| 5. | But many patients display diastolic collapse and do not suffer cardiac tamponade.
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| 6. | However, during cardiac tamponade, this is the case.
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| 7. | If it ruptures on the free wall, it will cause cardiac tamponade.
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| 8. | Tamponade may also arise from other conditions leading to fibrosis of the pericardium.
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| 9. | These adaptations have limited the rate of tamponades subsequently.
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| 10. | This state of affairs, called cardiac tamponade, sometimes kills the patient within minutes.
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