Consensus Guideline
Pleural Drains in Adults
Glossary
- BP
- Blood pressure
- CT scan
- Cat scan
- CXR
- Chest x-ray
- EN
- Enrolled nurse
- FNAB
- Fine needle airway biopsy
- HR
- Heart rate
- ICC
- Intercostal catheter
- INR
- International normalised ratio
- IV
- Intravenous
- MC&S
- Microbial culture and sensitivity
- MO
- Medical officer
- NIV
- Non invasive ventilation
- PEEP
- Positive end expiratory pressure
- PPC
- Pigtail pleural catheter
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment
- RMO
- Resident medical officer
- RN
- Registered nurse
- RR
- Respiratory rate
- Sac
- Severity assessment code
- SpO2
- Blood oxygen saturation
- TPR
- Temperature, pulse, respiration
- U/S
- Ultrasound
- UWSD
- Under water seal drainage system