Thursday, December 31, 2015

Types Of Drain Tube After Surgery

By Carol Kennedy


Patents may have complications of bodily fluids accumulation when he gets from a theater. This calls for a drainage tube after surgery to drain off the fluids that may be blood, pus or other bodily fluids. They usually expelled by either suction of capillarity where the fluids flow by themselves. The drain tube after surgery facilitates the faster healing of wounds and protects the wounds from getting infected.

They have a Penrose drain that was named after the famous gynecologist Charles Bingham Penrose. It is usually made of soft rubber tubing that is placed in the wound to remove the fluids by like blood or pus. This helps is prevention of fluids accumulation that would become a culture that can spur an infection. It does not use suction, but the fluid pressure from the wound to the tubing.

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 blacke remove is consisted of a silicon based tube. Silicon is usually used because it inert and safe to use in the body. The silicon tube has perforations into which the liquids flow by capillarity I the rubber tubing for suction out. Unlike many other ways of draining the fluids, it is one that entirely relies on the difference pressure of the inside of the patient.

The negative wound therapy is the type of draining that is used for major surgeries, trauma and the non healing wound. Because it normally is therapy, it takes quite sometimes but has any visible effects. The therapy helps in the removal of body fluids that could be infectious if left to stay. This helps in hastening the healing process for it encourages tissue granulation on it.

The pigtail remove is also another way to remove the liquids from a wound or the internal body parts. The pigtail drain usually has a small rumen like curled shape that is formed by the rubber tubing. It is used to remove the fluids from a cavity. It uses the passive pressure where the flow is free without ant suction. The curved section usually keeps off any air from flowing back which can be dangerous and cause infections.

We also have a redivac drain which usually consisted of normal tubing and a suction point. The only difference is that it employs the use of a high negative pressure to drain the fluid from the body. This usually helps remove fluids on closed cavities that are somewhat pressurized and have a larger amount of fluid to remove quickly.




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