Talk:Cardiac tamponade

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How can heart rupture usually happen if it is very uncommon?

Grammar: although uncommon, the most plausible site of cardiac rupture is in a scar resulting from myocardial infarction. JFW | T@lk 00:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beefing up the article

I've just done a bit of a re-write, wikifying the language/layout, adding some references etc. I have to admit I was quite surprised when I saw how underdeveloped the article is: I'll be expanding the article more over the coming days/weeks, but if anybody else has any suggestions or wants to jump in then feel free. In particular, I think we could do with some statistics on survival/morbidity rates for different presentations (for example, the reference I put in for now, on futility of pericardiocentesis for unwitnessed arrest due to tamponade, for example, comes from the Oxford Handbook of pre-hospital care, which, whilst a commonly used text, does not provide hard statistics): if anybody would like to point me towards a decent research study on this, that would be very nice! --John24601 19:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Compartment Syndrome?

My physiology professor lists pericardial tamponade as a compartment syndrome, but I cannot seem to find any references to this connection. Anyone? 85.178.51.102 (talk) 23:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)