Code Black 5

“So what exactly are you going to lecture me about.”

I asked while peeling back the plastic wrap.

[How would I know?]

…?

“What the hell, you bastard.”

[I’m just asking in case. If you keep your mouth shut even after I tell you later, then no matter how much I ramble it won’t matter, will it?]

“Uh… sure. Got it.”

Anyway, I grabbed the set, including the thickest 32 French chest tube, and set it on the procedure tray.

If it were only a pneumothorax, a 24 or 28 would do, but with rebar lodged in him like that, he probably had a hemothorax too.

To keep clots from blocking the tube, the straw hole had to be as big as possible...