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Pneumopericardium diagnosis by point‐of‐care ultrasonography
Author(s) -
Bobbia Xavier,
Claret Pierre Géraud,
Muller Laurent,
de La Coussaye Jean Emmanuel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.21943
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumopericardium , point of care ultrasound , emergency department , ultrasound , radiology , ultrasonography , respiratory distress , medical emergency , emergency medicine , cardiology , pneumothorax , psychiatry
Focused cardiac ultrasound by the emergency physician has become a fundamental tool to expedite the diagnostic evaluation of the patient at bedside. We report the case of a patient admitted to the emergency department for respiratory distress. He was examined by an emergency physician who performed a bedside echocardiography. Bright spots were seen rapidly moving along the pericardial layer during diastole with comet‐tail artifacts extending across the whole image of the heart and disappearing during systole, suggesting pneumopericardium. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2013