Thursday 2 April 2015

The Positive And Negative Effects Of Surgical Drain Management

By Aimee Schwartz


Medical interventions always use equipment and tools for performing procedures and to ensure fast recovery for the patients. These equipment are used to save lives and to make the procedure easy and safe for both the patient and the surgeon. Clinical procedures need to be really done carefully and effectively because lives rely on these.

Different surgeries or simple examinations and tests need tools as well to ensure accuracy and dependability of results. Surgical drain management systems are needed to help drain fluids and decompress excess air in the part where the surgery is done. This system has certain benefits and drawbacks.

The system includes primary functions like accumulation of blood, pus, and other fluids into the drain especially when anastomotic leakage occurs. It is also applicable in putting catheters and plastic surgeries. In addition, it is used in chest drainage process, operations of the breast, removal of cyst, neurosurgery, and some orthopedic procedures.

The system could be silastic or rubber, closed or open, and active or passive. Silastics are very inert and rubbers contain tracts. Closed systems use bottles while open systems use stoma bags. Finally, active drains have suction pressures controlled at high or low depending on what is required and passive relies on the pressure of the body.

The fluids that are accumulated by these tools are removed or stopped when they reach around twenty five milliliters a day. They can also be removed or withdrawn in a gradual manner which is about two centimeters per day. But those attached in postoperative sites are kept longer for protection. This will last approximately seven days.

In order to exercise palliative care, medical practitioners should pull, stop, or remove the drain carefully because this could be painful in the part of the patient. That is why they need to take pain relievers whenever possible. After the removal, the nurse will clean the part dry and will give advice on how to take care of the healing wound to avoid infection.

They must also carefully look into the guidelines from time to time in case there are very sensitive processes. Monitoring is an important so that they will know when to remove the tubes. Removing it means that the suction bags or bottles have reached a measurement of twenty five milliliters. They need to observe if the wound has healed yet or not. Otherwise, removing can be the cause of getting infections.

This should not be used in operations like gastrointestinal operations. It is safer without using the systems. Otherwise, it can damage the parts because of too much mechanical pressure. There are certain guidelines that professionals need to follow regarding the use of drains.

Many lives depend on these medical operations. If there are errors in the process, it could cause deadly infections. Thus, medical practitioners have to be really true to their vows of saving lives. Palliative care should be performed.




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