This customizable document, Chest Tube Drainage Care, is taken from MCN Healthcare's Emergency Department Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry's leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Chest Tube Drainage Care:

	POLICY: It is the policy of Hospital to provide a uniform method of chest tube drainage. An intrapleural drainage tube is used after most intrathoracic procedures. One 1 or more chest tubes are held in the pleural space by suture to the chest wall and are attached to a drainage system. A rubber-tipped hemostat will be kept at the patient's bedside in case of an emergency where the chest tube needs to be clamped off at the chest wall. PURPOSE: Evacuation and collection of fluid and/or air from the mediastinal and pleural cavity in postoperative and trauma situations Prevention of fluid...
Second excerpt:
	...Chart: Water Seal Chamber Tidaling Assessment and Management Yes Yes Indicates patient air leak exists and lungs are not reexpanded. The greater the degree of bubbling and tidaling, the greater the extent of air leak pneumothorax and the greater the degree of lung collapse. No No Indicates resolution of air leak and lung reexpansion slight tidaling may be seen. Be sure patient collection tubes are not kinked or obstructed; verify lung reexpansion. No Yes Indicates a possible connection...