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A 17-year-old male is presented to you following multiple knife stab wounds to the chest. He is alert, sitting up with:
Your clinical suspicion of a massive haemothorax on the left (decreased breath sounds and dull auscultation) is confirmed by a chest x-ray (click on the x-ray to enlarge). Your Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) scan detects neither cardiac tamponade, nor free fluid in the abdomen.
What particular aspect of chest drain equipment preparation is pertinent to this case?