Chest drain care bundle: Improving documentation and safety.

ABSTRACT: Chest drain insertion is a common advanced procedure with a significant associated risk of pain, distress, and complications. Nationally, audit and recommendations from leading bodies have highlighted a number of safety concerns around chest drain insertion. Audit work has demonstrated poor levels of documentation; particularly around use of premedication, use of ultrasound guidance and consent. This has obvious potential consequences for patient safety and thus is an important target for improvement work. This project quantifies current standards of documentation and aims to improve this through a combination of accessible and easy to read guidelines, education, and the introduction of a chest drain insertion bundle. National best practice standards were identified through review of natio

SUBMITTER: Hutton J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693079 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature