All About Drain Tube After Surgery

By Carol Kennedy


At times, the body has excess fluids, say blood or pus n certain parts. Therefore, to save such patients, the doctors employ draining technique where they suck the fluids out using a suction device and tubing. The suction tubes are usually inserted in the exact area where there is a fluid accumulation. The fluid removal enables the wound to heal much quickly and avoids infections. There are several types of drain tube after surgery and they are discussed below.

A Penrose is a surgical device that is usually placed in wounds to be able to remove the fluid to avoid infection by giving the bacteria a culture to grow in and also lead to quicker wound healing. It is consisted of rubber tubing and suction devices that allow one to offer the suction power into the wound. It was named after a famous gynecologist called Charles Bingham Penrose.

The chest drain is flexible plastic tubing is usually inserted into the chest wall into the chest cavity. It is used to remove air in the chest cavity that could make it hard for a patient to breath. In case of an injury, it can be used to remove out the blood that is bleeding inside. F it were an infection and thee is pus accumulation, it is also used. The chest drain is by another name known as thoracic catheter or tube thoracostomy.

The Jackson-Pratt drain is the most come and basic of all drains. It is mad of simple rubber tubing and also suction devices. This suction device helps such the fluid from the body when you manually compress the suction device. Due to the pressure, the fluid is therefore forced out into the tube and out of the body.

A blacked drain is consisted of a round silicon tube that has channels and perforations on the side. When inserted into the area with fluid accumulation, it allows the fluid to seep in to the channels slowly by way of capillarity. These silicon tubes are then connected to the rubber tubing outside the body where the fluids are collected and disposed.

Negative pressure wound therapy is also another tube remove method used in the treatment of surgical wounds that are very large, traumas or non healing wounds. They usually use enclosed foam and a suction device. This foam is placed on the wound and using the suction device they help remove excess fluid from the wound. It helps in faster cell and tissue granulation that promote faster wound healing.

The pigtail drain is usually has a curled up rubber tubing that acts as a guard to preventing any back flow of the fluids or even infected air. It usually has a suction device t the rare end where the collection container is usually o. It is advised that one be emptying the drain twice a day to avoid any infections or blockage which is common due to the pig tail design.

The redivac drain is a common remove but the difference is that it uses a high amount of negative pressure to drain the fluids. It is likely to be used in those parts of the body where is hard to suction any fluids or those areas that happen to be with thick and viscous fluids, like in lymph-suction to removal the fatty tissue in some ones body.




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