Overview
Open Interventions → Procedures. Choose Not performed, Drain effusion. Effect levels and flow targets represent illustrative modeled responses; they are not clinical dose instructions.
Drainage reduces intrapericardial pressure, restoring diastolic filling and stroke volume. Atrial pressures fall and separate; BP rises and pulsus paradoxus recedes.
The paused reference covers the route (Image-guided percutaneous pericardial drainage; surgical drainage when indicated.), example doses/settings, indications, adverse effects, contraindications/precautions and monitoring. These details are available after the intervention is selected.
What to monitor in the reference: ECG, BP, perfusion, repeat imaging and drainage output. Persistent elevated filling pressures may reflect coexisting disease. The simulator does not model procedural complications.