Case 69: Urgent underwater seal-drain
Whilst working at a small country hospital you are faced with a 32 year old man involved in a farming accident. He has been charged by a bull and one horn has penetrated his right chest. An xray shows haemo-pneumothorax. You have inserted an intercostal catheter but the hospital does not have a modern drain chamber to connect it to. The nurses find some old glass chambers and rubber tubing that they used when the hospital was better funded 20 years ago.