Table of Contents

  1. Chest Drain Programme
    1. How to Use this Programme
    2. Learning Outcomes - Chest Drains
  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
    1. Technique 1 - Large-bore chest drain insertion
    2. Modifications 1: The use of USS in chest drain insertion
    3. Modifications 2: The Use of Flutter valves
  4. Small-bore chest drain insertion
    1. Technique 2 - Small-bore Seldinger chest drain insertion
    2. Modifications 1: The use of USS in chest drain insertion
    3. Modifications 2: The Use of Flutter valves
  5. Pre-hospital chest drain insertion
    1. Pre-hospital considerations
    2. Clinical Signs of Tension Pneumothorax
    3. Questions to ask yourself before inserting a pre-hospital chest drain?
    4. Procedural Guidelines - 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
    1. Procedural Guidelines - Removing a chest drain
  8. Risk Factors of Chest Drain Management
  9. Theoretical Assessment - Chest Drains
    1. Theoretical Assessment - Chest Drains
  10. Housekeeping
    1. Assessment of Skill Acquisition - Small Bore Chest Drain Insertion
    2. Assessment of Skill Acquisition - Large Bore Chest Drain Insertion
    3. Assessment of Skill Acquisition - Pre-Hospital Chest Drain Insertion
    4. Assessment of Skill Acquisition - Chest Drain Management
    5. Assessment of Skill Acquisition -Chest Drain Removal
    6. Record of Completion of Programme (Small-Bore Chest Drain Insertion)
    7. Record of Completion of Programme (Large-Bore Chest Drain Insertion)
    8. Record of Completion of Programme (Pre-Hospital Chest Drain Insertion)
    9. Record of Completion of Programme (Chest Drain Management)
    10. Record of Completion of Programme (Chest Drain Removal)
    11. Practitioners' Evaluation Questionnaire (Chest Drains)
    12. References
    13. Useful On-line Resources
    14. Authors, Contributors & Reviewers
  11. Appendices
    1. Appendix A
    2. Appendix B
    3. Appendix C
    4. Appendix D
    5. Appendix E
    6. Appendix F
    7. Appendix G
    8. Appendix H