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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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| PREFACE
|
5 |
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|
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
|
7 |
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| A
FEW THINGS OF NOTE |
11 |
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| CONTENTS |
13 |
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| 1.
How it all began |
17 |
| 2.
Why use them? |
25 |
| 3.
How do they work? |
29 |
| 4.
Rules of thumb |
35 |
| 5.
Prevention versus treatment? |
39 |
| 6.
What do I drain? |
43 |
| 7.
What are they made of? |
49 |
| 8.
Which is which? |
55 |
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Open
vs closed
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| |
Suction
vs passive
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| |
Sump-suction
vs closed suction
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|
| 9.
Shopping for drains |
61 |
| 10.
What can go wrong? |
65 |
| 11.
Surviving with drains |
71 |
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Some
questions to ask yourself |
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| |
A
systematic approach to drains
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Trouble-shooting
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i.
Blocked drain
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| |
ii.
Leaking drain
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| |
iii.
Loose drain
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| |
iv.
Drain retraction |
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v.
Drain falling out
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| |
vi.
Broken drain/tubing
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| |
vii.
Inflamed exit site
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| |
viii.
Atypical drainage fluid
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| |
ix.
High drainage output
|
|
|
x.
Vacuum failure
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| 12.
Open drains |
85 |
| |
Corrugated
|
|
| |
Penrose |
|
|
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Yeates
|
|
| 13.
Closed drains |
91 |
| |
Closed
passive drains |
|
| |
Radiologically
guided percutaneous drains
|
| |
Urinary
catheter
|
| |
Intercostal
catheter
|
| |
Closed suction drains
|
| |
Bellovac®
|
| |
Blake®
|
| |
Exudrain®
|
| |
Hemovac®
|
|
|
Jackson
Pratt® |
|
|
14.
Sump-suction drains
|
107 |
| |
Axiom®
sump |
|
| |
Salem®
sump
|
| |
Sump
drain care
|
| |
Wall
suction pressure setting
|
|
|
Trouble
shooting sump drains
|
|
15.
Cardiothoracic drains
|
115 |
|
|
Intercostal
catheter |
|
|
|
Pleural
catheter |
|
|
16.
Gastrointestinal drains
|
131 |
| |
Nasogastric
tubes |
|
| |
Fine
bore feeding tube
|
| |
Ryle's®
tube
|
| |
Salem®
sump tube
|
| |
PEG
feeding tube
|
| |
Jejunostomy
feeding tube
|
| |
T-tube
|
|
|
Peritoneal
catheter
|
|
17.
Neurosurgical drains
|
145 |
|
|
External ventricular drain
|
|
|
18.
Plastic Surgical Drains
|
151 |
|
|
V.A.C.® system
|
|
|
19.
Urological drains
|
163 |
| |
Urethral
catheter |
|
| |
Foley's
catheter
|
| |
3-way
catheter
|
| |
Single
lumen catheter
|
| |
Suprapubic
catheter
|
| |
Foley's
catheter
|
|
|
Bonanno®
catheter
|
|
20.
Removing them
|
175 |
| |
|
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READING
LIST
|
181 |
| |
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|
INDEX
|
185 |
