The development of paradoxical pulse in a patient following trauma or cardiothoracic surgery, especially in connection with increasing venous pressure and heart rate, suggests:
A. severe COPD
B. pericarditis
C. myocardial infarction
D. cardiac tamponade
Ans: D. cardiac tamponade
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