Chest Drain Management

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This series of videos which will guide you through the steps involved in safely inserting and removing a chest drain. In each of the five sections, you will find a video in which consultant radiologists Dr Hans-Ulrich Laasch and Dr Damian Mullan explain and demonstrate the techniques involved in chest drain insertion and removal. Watch the videos and read the key points summarised underneath.

Course Content

Introduction to chest drains
Preparing the kit for a chest drain
Inserting the chest drain: method 1
Removal of a chest drain (lock pigtail with guidewire)