Chest Drains Online Skills Pack

Table of Contents

1. Chest Drain Programme
2. Essential Pre-requisite Knowledge
   1. Introduction
   2. Indications
   3. Potential Indications
   4. Anatomy and Physiology
   5. Risk Assessment
   6. Psychological considerations
   7. Risk Factors
   8. Procedural Guidelines - Chest Drain Insertion Generic Aspects
3. Large bore chest drain insertion
4. Small-bore chest drain insertion
5. Pre-hospital chest drain insertion
6. Chest drain management
7. Chest drain Removal
8. Risk Factors of Chest Drain Management
9. Theoretical Assessment - Chest Drains
10. Housekeeping
11. Appendices

Essential Pre-requisite Knowledge

The clinical knowledge part of this pack has been split into six sections. There is a general section which contains information relating to all aspects of chest drains. There are then five further specific sections relating to Large bore chest drain insertion; Small bore chest drain insertion; Pre-hospital chest drain insertion; Chest drain management and Chest drain removal.