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Indian Journal of Surgery
Medknow Publications on behalf of Association of Surgeons of India
ISSN: 0972-2068
Vol. 68, Num. 1, 2006, pp. 57-57
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Indian Journal of Surgery, Vol. 68, No. 1, January-February, 2006, pp.
57
Letter To Editor
Negative suction drainage for surgical
wounds
Bagul NB
7 Westbury Court, Longbenton Newcastle upon Tyne, United
Kingdom NE12 8RL
Correspondence Address:7 Westbury Court, Longbenton Newcastle upon
Tyne, United Kingdom NE12 8RL
drnitinbb@yahoo.co.uk
Code Number: 06018
Sir,
It is very interesting and economical technique Gopal and Kumar[1] have narrated regarding negative suction
drainage for small surgical wounds.
My first question is do we have evidence that surgical drains do help to heal
smaller surgical wounds?.
Recently Cochrane Review 2005 suggested there is no difference in the
incidence of wound infection, haematoma or dehiscence between those allocated
to drains and the un-drained wounds. Though the above review was for
orthopaedic wounds i would feel it should apply to smaller wounds too. [2],[3],[4],[5]
Secondly it would be interesting to know your personal experience with
this type of drains and their complication rates.
References
| 1. |
Gopal SV, Kumar M. A simple negative suction drainage for small
surgical wounds. Indian J Surg 2005;67:282-3 Back to
cited text no. 1 |
| 2. |
Parker MJ, Roberts C. Closed suction surgical wound drainage after
orthopaedic surgery. Cochr Data Sys Rev 2005;4:CD001825. Back to cited text no. 2 |
| 3. |
Willy C, Sterk J, Gerngross H, Schmidt R. Drainage in soft tissue
surgery. What is "evidence based"? Chirurg 2003;74:108-14. Review.
German. Back to cited text no. 3 |
| 4. |
Walmsley PJ, Kelly MB, Hill RM, Brenkel I A prospective,
randomised, controlled trial of the use of drains in total hip
arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Br 2005;87:1397-401. Back to cited text no. 4 |
| 5. |
Mengal B, Aebi J, Rodriguez A, Lemaire R. A prospective randomized
study of wound drainage versus non-drainage in primary total hip or
knee arthroplasty. Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot
2001;87:29-39. Back to cited text no. 5 [PUBMED] [FULLTEXT] |
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