[mdickstein]

Very sorry–I misread your initial question (I read peripheral rather than pericardial!).

Take a look at the chapter on pericardial disease in the student book. There’s an interactive associated with that chapter that has a slider to control pericardial stiffness (beta). At its default setting (0.01), it requires a lot of volume to induce full blown tamponade. But if you put a little volume in the pericardial space (eg 100 ml), you’ll see mild changes at that setting of pericardial stiffness. You can then make the pericardium stiffer and see more pronounced hemodynamics effects of that same volume.

Let me know if this is what you’re looking to do…. MLD

Addendum: Also, in the full simulator, look at the input menu item Ventricles & Peri. You can modulate both alpha and beta from this input panel.

• This reply was modified 3 months ago by  Marc.