1.   A plastic tube drains the trough to provide you with a pint or more of safe water per day, and it tastes only faintly of plastic.

2.   A rosary lay around his neck, and a tube drained fluid from his right lung.

3.   A tube drains excess fluid from his head.

4.   Cocktail-straw-sized tubes drain surgical incisions into small containers which must be emptied every few hours.

5.   One tube drains blood from the ventricle into the device, which pumps the blood to the aorta to nourish the body.

6.   Two tubes drain blood and fluids from his chest.