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Advantages And Disadvantages 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.

Some of the examples include the prevention of fluid accumulation like pus, blood, fluids, and dead space or air and characterization of fluid especially if there is a detection of anastomotic leakage. This can be done in operations like plastic surgery, orthopedic procedures, chest drainage process, neurosurgery, cyst operations, catheters, and many others. The application and insertion of such drainages is done carefully by a clinical professional.

Drains are classified according to passive or active, rubber or silastic, closed or open. Passives are those that do not have suction tubes and depend on pressure, while active has suctions that maintain suction pressures at either high or low levels. Rubbers have tract while silastics are inert. Then there is the open system using stoma or drain pads and the closed drains liquids to a bottle.

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 They can also be removed or withdrawn in a gradual manner which is about two centimeters per day.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.

The drawback to the system is that when it is not removed at a certain time, it can be very difficult to do it because it will stick into the wound and the pressure will prevent it from being taken away. And if it is removed even if the wound has not been healed yet, the patient may get 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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