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The answer is the nurse is caring for a patient who has a chest tube to drain pneumothorax. Chest drains nursing actions should the nurse performed.

Chest drains also known as underwater sealed drains (UWSD) are inserted to allow draining of the pleural spaces of air, blood or fluid, allowing expansion of the lungs and restoration of negative pressure in the thoracic cavity.

What is Chest drains?

  • A chest tube is a surgical drain that is inserted through the chest wall and into the pleural space or the mediastinum in order to remove clinically undesired substances such as air excess fluid, blood, chyle or pus from the intrathoracic space.
  • An intrapleural chest tube is also known as a drain or an intercostal catheter, and can either be a thin, flexible silicone tube, or a larger, semi-rigid, fenestrated plastic tube, which often involves a flutter valve or underwater seal.

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