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Images in neonatal medicine
Cheap, easily replicable neonatal chest drain model
  1. Lucinda C Winckworth
  1. Neonatal Department, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lucinda C Winckworth, Neonatal Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winchester, UK; lucinda.winckworth{at}hhft.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-322744

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    When setting up a local neonatal training day we wanted to create an easily reproducible, cheap but realistic enough model for Seldinger pigtail chest drain insertion.

    Chest drain training manikins are prohibitively expensive for most departments. Using animal carcasses, although realistic, may not be practical or palatable to all individuals, and previous articles describing various do-it-yourself approaches1 2 still involved …

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.