Step by Step video guide to help you insert chest tube Drainage and connecting with water seal, very important step need to be done in treatment of collection of pus or blood in pleural cavity. To check the seal ask patient to take deep breaths, if water column moves with breaths, that means the chest tube is correctly placed. After insertion of chest tube, it is stitched with skin with sutures, thread is also rounded across chest tube so that it may not be pulled back, for complete procedure watch out this video on how to insert chest tube drainage. Video recording by Dr Vikram Singh Yadav at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi (wacky5.com). This procedure is being done in draining chest collections in Haemothorax and Pyothorax.
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