Chest Drains Online Skills Pack

Table of Contents

1. Chest Drain Programme
2. Essential Pre-requisite Knowledge
3. Large bore chest drain insertion
4. Small-bore chest drain insertion
5. Pre-hospital chest drain insertion
6. Chest drain management
   1. Ongoing care and management of Patients with Chest Drains
   2. Procedural Guidelines - Chest Drain Management
   3. Trouble Shooting and Pitfalls
7. Chest drain Removal
8. Risk Factors of Chest Drain Management
9. Theoretical Assessment - Chest Drains
10. Housekeeping
11. Appendices

Chest drain management

This section covers chest drain management including procedural guidelines and trouble shooting. Before completing this section please ensure you have completed the Pre-requisite Knowledge section on anatomy and physiology, indications, risk assessment and generic aspects of chest drain insertion. Further information on large bore or small bore chest drain insertion can be found in earlier sections. Please remember to complete the Assessment of Skills form and the Record of Completion forms - links to these can be found at the end of this section.