Chest Tubes
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Joselito is a physical therapist treating a patient with a hemothorax and chest tube placement. During bedside treatment, the therapist knocks over the collection reservoir. Which of the following actions should the therapist take NEXT?
A. Terminate treatment and contact the physician immediately
B. Contact nursing and continue treatment
C. Place the reservoir in an upright position below the bed
D. Raise the head of the bed to 60 degrees
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:15.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn, and you'll see the life |
| 0:22.4 | I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to |
| 0:27.8 | change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:56.1 | For this week's clinical file, |
| 1:02.1 | we have Hossolito. And Hossolito is a physical therapist treating a patient with a hemothorax and chest tube placement. During bedside treatment, the therapist knocks over the collection |
| 1:07.8 | reservoir. Which are the following actions should the therapist take next? |
| 1:12.7 | So we have A, terminate treatment and contact the physician immediately. |
| 1:17.1 | B, contact nursing and continue treatment. |
| 1:20.7 | C, place the reservoir in an upright position below the bed. |
| 1:26.2 | And D is raise the head of the bed to 60 degrees. All right. Let's go |
| 1:30.2 | to the top of this question. You know, this is something I decided to make into a question, |
| 1:34.8 | this whole idea of chest tube placement, collection reservoir, all that stuff, because I just got |
| 1:39.6 | done teaching about this. And I want to challenge my coaching program students listening to this right now |
| 1:45.0 | with a question. Make sure you're ready for this next MPTE coming up. All right. So you better |
| 1:49.6 | get this right. For the rest of you, whether you're in the car right now on the treadmill, |
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