Pericardial tamponade
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed64-year-old woman for Post-drainage pericardial tamponade reassessment after urgent image-guided pericardiocentesis. About 8 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Reconcile the authored pre-drainage clinical and echocardiographic tamponade pattern with the current stable whole-patient state.
- Review the reported urgent drainage and immediate response without inferring procedure skill, sole causation, or durable resolution.
- Review malignant, infectious, inflammatory, systemic, renal, iatrogenic, and other etiologies while the selected fluid studies remain pending.
- Review serial perfusion, respiratory, rhythm, catheter, output, imaging, recurrence, and complication surveillance without manipulating or removing the drain.
- After elapsed reassessment, hand off pending results, recurrence and deterioration triggers, and named Cardiology and oncology ownership.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Schulz-Menger J, Collini V, et al. 2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis. Eur Heart J. 2025;46:3952-4041. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf192.
- Wang TKM, Klein AL, Cremer PC, et al. 2025 Concise Clinical Guidance: An ACC Expert Consensus Statement on the Diagnosis and Management of Pericarditis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025;86:2691-2719. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2025.05.023.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.