title: Chest drainage.
abstract: As an intensive care nurse with experience of caring for critically ill patients in the UK and on deployed operations overseas, I found the CPD article useful in reviewing the pathophysiology of a pneumothorax, use of intrapleural chest drains, observations that should be recorded, and nursing care and management of a patient with an intrapleural chest drain. Reflecting on the time out activities in the CPD article was valuable.
authors.affiliation: The British Army, and at the time of writing worked at 16 Medical Regiment.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D015505:Chest Tubes; D004322:Drainage / Q000451:nursing*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000451:nursing*; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000628:therapy*