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Clinical features of cardiac tamponade

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Possible clinical features include:

  • hypotension and shock
  • pulsus paradoxus
  • inaudible or distant heart sounds
  • distension of neck veins
  • Kussmaul's sign
  • confusion

Patient's with acute cardiac tamponade classically present with Beck's triad.


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