CONFORMANCE

In the BTS chest drain insertion guidelines, a blunt dissection technique in the safe area is recommended³. The recommended procedure for the KatGuide fully complies with this recommendation.
In fact, the only difference is that the KatGuide promotes better directional control as you insert the chest drain.
A very informative video demonstrating the insertion of a large bore chest tube using the recommended technique can be found on New England Journal of Medicine’s video in clinical medicine.

_{3) D Laws et al., BTS guidelines for the insertion of a chest drain, Thorax 2003;58:ii53-ii59}