Inpatient care. Patients with pericardial effusion who present with significant symptoms or cardiac tamponade require emergent treatment and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). The pericardial catheter (if placed) should be removed within 24-48 hours to avoid infection.
Duties and Responsibilities. Surgical assistants help surgeons to do their jobs safely and effectively. They may assist with any surgical discipline, such as neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, trauma surgery, or plastic surgery.Surgical assistants determine what equipment is needed for any given surgical procedure.uties and Responsibilities. Surgical assistants help surgeons to do their jobs safely and effectively. They may assist with any surgical discipline, such as neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, trauma surgery, or plastic surgery.
1 Surgery. 2  PAs are the first assistants in surgery, even before other surgeons. 3  Surgical PAs usually perform some surgical procedures on their own (putting in chest tubes, central lines, doing lumbar punctures, etc), and help cut, clamp, retract and close with a surgeon/anesthesiologist/nursing team. 4  Emergency.