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Clinical drainage catheters are more effective when fixed in this way!

Release time:

2023-07-06

I think: "rubber band - 3M tape" fixation method has a better effect, mainly or make full use of the area of the tape attached to the skin, it abandoned the 3M tape to do the elevated platform method, but the use of rubber bands to do the elevated platform method, reducing the waste of adhesive tape on the skin; in addition to make full use of the elasticity of the rubber bands, even if the pipe Pulling, elastic rubber bands can be a certain degree of buffer; and then a large limit to tie a good knot of rubber bands and pipe friction increases, rubber bands and catheters are better to do a relative fixed, not easy to slide.

Critical care medicine patients carry more drainage tubes, urinary catheters, gastric tubes, jejunal tubes, chest and abdominal drainage tubes and so on can be said to be commonplace, for the care of these drainage tubes, one of the important one is to be properly fixed to prevent accidental detachment of the tube.

The nursing department of the author's hospital requires double fixation of these tubes. In order to prevent damage to the patient's skin often use a strong adhesive to the skin without stimulating the 3M tape, in the nursing sister's ingenuity, the shape of the fixed 3M tape was cut in a variety of ways: what "Duplex", "Work", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H" and so on. "H" type, "Y" type ..... It's a sight for sore eyes.

Although, the effect of drain fixation has been greatly improved, but the above cut and fixed 3M tape is replaced frequently, the reason for this is, on the one hand, the fixation of the catheter by the elevated platform method, part of the tape must be pasted on the drain tube, resulting in a reduction in the area of the tape above the skin; on the other hand, with the patient's movement and pulling, it is easy to make the tape on the catheter fall off, resulting in an ineffective fixation.

Based on the fixed area, the patient's pulling and the cost of consumables, the author implemented the "rubber band - 3M tape" fixation method in the department.

"Rubber band - 3M tape" fixation method has been implemented for a period of time: 3M tape replacement frequency is greatly reduced, the use of consumables to improve the rate of unplanned extubation rate has been reduced, the nursing workload has also been reduced to a certain extent.

If your department or hospital has not yet adopted this drain fixation method, you may wish to try, so that the source of fixed consumables popular, worth promoting the use of.

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