Types Of Drain Tube After Surgery

By Carol Kennedy


Suction is a way used by medics to remove fluids that tend to build in the body. These fluids may be a caused by and infection, injury or after an operation. There are several types of drain tube after surgery have each a basic suction with a tubing, a collection bag and a suction may be optional.

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.

They have the chest drain which has many other names like the chest tube or the thoracic catheter. It is usually used to get rid of fluids specifically in the thoracic cavity. It employs the use of rubber tubing that is tucked inside the chest into the pleural cavity. It can be used to remove air that is causing the decompression of the cavity, any blood if one is bleeding or chyle, a fluid found in the thoracic cavity. It helps ease up breathing for the patient and can be a way of treating certain diseases.

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.

The black remove is consisted of around silicon tube that has channels that can be able to collect the liquids. They are usually collected by capillarity action where the liquids trickle into the open channels freely. These tubes lead to other closed channels that help deliver the fluid by either the fluid pressure of suction.

The medics also use the negative pressure wound therapy to remove the fluids in wounds. As the name therapy suggests, it normally is usually a long repetitive procedure that is used to treat patients with larger surgeries, trauma or non healing wounds. They employ the use of enclosed foam that is usually attached to a suction device to remove the bodily fluids. The therapy is effective for it seems to enhance quicker healing to wound for it avoids infection and allow cell granulation.

A pig tail remove has coiled and curled tubing as the name pig tail suggests. The tubes are usually curled to always ensure there is some fluid in the tube to avoid any contaminated air or fluid to go back into the wound and infect it. Because of these feature, it usually is usually like to block and therefore require a constant check and draining two times a day.

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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