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How Do We Safely Treat Pneumopericardium In A Severely Ill Baby?, Osman Başpinar, Mehmet Boşnak

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

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.