Chest Tube Manikin

Skills

• Manikin designed specifically to teach the theory, anatomy and skills needed to manage pre-hospital chest trauma, as well as ongoing chest tube maintenance
• The Chest Tube Manikin is perfect for teaching the concepts and mechanics of dosed waterseal drainage systems like ‘Pleur-Evac’ type units

Features

• The right side of the manikin has two cutaway viewing areas to provide awareness of the anatomical relationship between the skin surface, musculature, ribs and lungs
• The left side has a pressurised tension pneumothorax site to relieve air that has accumulated within the pleural space and is restricting lung inflation
• There is also a site where chest tubes may be surgically placed to treat pleural effusion by draining fluids from the pleural space.
• The fluid, colour, volume and viscosity is controlled by the instructor