Hey folks, Scott Wangart here, and this is the M-Crit podcast today on the podcast,

chest tubes, aka tube thoracostomies. It's a dying procedure. You may need it every once in a

while, but certainly not when I was training when we used to do them all the time. They've been

replaced by better things like pigtail catheters, but you still need to know how to do them,

you still need to know how to manage them, and you still need to know all of the peri-procedural

stuff. And that's what we're going to talk about today. This is just too big to do in one

episode. So today we're going to talk about the peri-procedural stuff for chest tubes,

the pre-the post-management of thoracic drains, etc. And next episode we will discuss all of the

actual procedural stuff for crash and non-crash chest tubes. But before we get into that, a few quick

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