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PPE
- Gloves, sterile, size 8.5 (or 9)
- Gown, sterile, size XL
- Mask, surgical
- Eye protection
- Hair net
Equipment
- Procedure pack
- Drape, fenestrated, large
- Syringe, 10mL
- Needle, 18G, drawing up
- Needle, 25G, long
- Needle, 21G
- Scalpel, 22 blade (acceptable substitutes 10 blade, 23 blade)
- Kelly clamp x1
- Tube-clamps x2
- Chlorhexidine 2%, 100mL bottle (lesser strengths are not ideal)
- Lignocaine 1% with adrenaline, 10mL
- Intercostal catheter 28F or 32F (or 36-38F if very bloody)
- Underwater seal
- Water, sterile, 500mL pour-bottle
Medications
- Fentanyl 200mcg
- Ketamine 200mg
- IV normal saline 1000mL (as a drug-line)
- IV fluid giving set with hand-pump (‘blood line’)
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