Pericarditis and Tamponade

What this deck covers

Pericarditis and Tamponade in twelve clinical teaching cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong.

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the twelve cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Acute pericarditis, Musculoskeletal chest wall pain, Pneumonia with pleuritic pain, Gastro-oesophageal reflux, The heart rate and the QRS width, Prednisolone, tapered over two weeks, Ibuprofen alone, for one week, Colchicine alone, for three months, Ibuprofen with colchicine, and rest from sport, Myopericarditis, with normal ventricular function, Acute myocarditis, and he needs intensive care, Infarction from an anomalous coronary artery, Post-cardiac injury syndrome with an effusion, Ventricular failure after the procedure, Hospital-acquired pneumonia, A residual defect, reopening, An anti-inflammatory added, and observation, Drainage now, whatever the blood pressure, A dilated left ventricle with poor function, A large effusion, with tamponade, A loculated collection behind the left ventricle, A large pericardial effusion, without tamponade, The heart swinging within the fluid, Alternating conduction down two pathways, Poor contact from one limb electrode, Ventricular bigeminy.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Acute pericarditis is inflammation of the double-layered sac around the heart and the great vessels.
• Stage 1 pericarditis is widespread concave ST elevation with PR depression in the same leads.

The twelve worked cases in this deck, with the images and the full explanation of every option, are part of Pediatric Case Review membership. See what is included.

More from this system: all cardiology decks and question sets · pediatric reference values.