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

Ongoing care and management of Patients with Chest Drains

Ideally patients with chest drains in place should be managed in appropriate clinical areas (assessment units, emergency departments, critical care areas, respiratory or thoracic surgery wards) although this may not always be feasible. Nevertheless, all healthcare professionals who are going to insert, remove or care for patients with chest drains must be competent in the management of chest drains.

It is important to take an evidence-based approach to chest drain care.