Mar 19, 2025 · Insertion and management of chest tubes require careful assessment and technical precision. Clinicians, often surgeons or emergency physicians, determine the …

Jan 27, 2020 · Erica A. Loomis, M.D., a trauma surgeon at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, demonstrates on a manikin how to properly secure a chest tube on a patient.

INCISION AND DISSECTION • Make incision big enough to accommodate index finger and chest tube, about 3 cm.

How to secure a drain or chest tube ("regular" way & Soweto) Please watch the end of the video for instructions on how to prepare your materials for the exercise....more.

Step 15: Tie interrupted suture adjacent to close skin adjacent to the chest tube Step 16: Leave both ends of suture long and wrap around chest tube several times in both directions

Apr 4, 2017 · Chest tube insertion is a procedure commonly performed by residents and fellows throughout their general and cardiothoracic surgical training. Proper placement of a chest tube …

This page contains curated #FOAMed (and some paywall) resources to help those seeking to learn how to place a chest tube (also known as tube thoracostomy)

Ensure that inner tract/incision can fit your finger and tube It helps to have your finger in the tract and pass the tube along your finger, particularly in obese patients

Here are some videos on how I: Suture in a chest tube 2. Tie a sliding knot 3. Subcuticular running skin closure 3. Attach two chest tubes to a pleurevac 4. Place chest tube dressings …

Feb 25, 2019 · Other techniques include purse string sutures or horizontal mattress sutures. There are several different techniques, so I wanted to illustrate a few of them.