Triage strategy for urgent management of cardiac tamponade: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia and Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ² Department Cardiology, Maria Vittoria Hospital, Via Luigi Cibrario 72, Turin 10141, Italy massimo_imazio@yahoo.it.
• ³ Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• ⁴ Unit of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, School of Medicine, Padua, Italy.
• ⁶ Division of Internal Medicine, Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiological, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Centro 'V. Gallucci', University of Padova-Policlinico, Padua, Italy.
• ⁸ AP-HP Hopital Ambroise Paré, UFR des Sciences de la Sante Simone Veil, UVSQ.
• ⁹ The Heart Hospital, University College London Hospitals Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Virgen de Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.
• ¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹² Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.
• ¹³ Second Department of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, General University Hospital and the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ¹⁴ Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Universitätsklinikum Gießen and Marburg GmbH, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁸ Medical Department 1, Leopoldina Hospital, Schweinfurt, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Maria Cecilia Hospital-GVM Care and Research, Ettore Sansavini Health Science Foundation, Cotignola, Italy.
• ²⁰ Cardio-Pulmonary Intensive Care, Division at the National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
• ²¹ Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin, Hopital Pitié-Salpetriere, Paris, France.