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DE LA PARTE PEREZ, Lincoln  e  PEREZ RIVERO, Maura. Valor del Ketalar en el taponamiento cardiaco. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1996, vol.35, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

The cardiac tamponade is one of the most feared complications in the postoperative of cardiovascular anesthesia, and the possibility of its occurrence is always present. With the objective of demonstrating the incidence of this complication in our Cardiocenter, and exposing the experience obtained with ketamine, a retrospective study of all the children operated in a seven years period (1987-1993) is carried out. The case histories of 24 patients with this complications during that period are analyzed, an emphasis is made in the need of an early diagnosis in order to decrease fatal complications. None of these were found. No complications due to the anesthetic technique were found

Palavras-chave : CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS [surgery]; HEART DISEASES [surgery]; CARDIAC TAMPONADE [etiology]; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KETAMINE [administration and dosage]; ANESTHESIA; INTRAVENOUS.