When you take a breath in, you may experience a mild, brief drop in blood pressure that’s unnoticeable. Pulsus paradoxus, sometimes called paradoxic pulse, refers to a blood pressure drop of at least ...

Note the initial jugular venous pulse level. Put your right palm and fingers just below the right costal margin and gently push down for about thirty seconds while noting the JVP during several ...

April 25, 2007 (Boston, MA) - Pulsus paradoxus is no longer a paradox, but it may be among the most reliable of the traditional clinical signs suggesting cardiac tamponade "when faced with a patient ...