Chest Tube Education

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Across
  1. 4. air escaping from chest tube or the drainage system
  2. 7. amount of water in the water seal chamber
  3. 10. position chest tube chambers should be
  4. 12. complication causing deviated trachea
  5. 13. Attached to wall and controls suction
  6. 14. chest tube falls out
  7. 17. placement of chest tube for air
  8. 19. blood in the pleural space
  9. 21. if drainage is greater than this amount call MD immediately
  10. 22. placement of chest tube for blood or fluid
  11. 23. how to encourage drainage from the tube
Down
  1. 1. is tube free of kinks or blockages
  2. 2. lung collapse
  3. 3. what to cover chest tube hole with if tube becomes dislodged
  4. 5. chest tube bent or blocked
  5. 6. disruption in flow
  6. 8. Where you will observe intermittent bubbling
  7. 9. type of chest tube using air
  8. 11. diet patient should be on to promote healing
  9. 15. Where fluid or air is drained into
  10. 16. Where you control the amount of pressure used to pull fluid from patients chest
  11. 18. excess build-up in the pleural space
  12. 20. type of chest tube using water seal