Chest Tube Placement



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23 Comments

  1. Why not wrap the string around the tube a few times before tieing it? That way you can use the same string to close the incision when the tube is removed using one-hand knots.

  2. Watched my ex get a chest tube in. They gave him the white anesthetic IV, and he was thrashing out in pain the entire time begging them to stop. The dr placed the chest tube incorrectly and it was compressing an artery in his lung.

  3. Had a chest tube in my left lung 6 years ago. Was awake, heavily sedated. Even being on morphine and not being able to feel my broken ribs AT ALL, the pain from them removing the chest tube was even to this day the worst pain i have ever experienced.
    Cant remember them putting the thing in. Luckily.

  4. I was wide awake when they put two of these in my chest, some of the worst pain I experienced in my life. I had another one in after my left lung needed to be drained, I now have three scars on my left chest. Excuse my language, but chest tubes just suck ass man

  5. I had a collapsed lung about two years ago now. I've got a little scar from the hole in my side from this procedure, although the most noticable change is the severed nerve.

    Nice to see the procedure from the side!

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