Chest Tube

Read: Tube Thoracostomy sections Indications, Technique, Complications http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/80678-overview#a2 Links to an external site.

Lab Expectations:

1. Gather Equipment

2. Locate rib location

3. Verbalize lidocaine prep

4. Make chest incision proper location

5. Use blunt disection to pleural space

6. Insert chest tube and verbalize connect to water seal

7. Verbalize suture and vasoline gauze closure