Tubes
An alternative to placing a Foley catheter.
What is a Purewick or Condom Catheter (External Urinary Collection Device)
This drain is typically placed during knee replacements and is spring loaded.
What is a hemovac drain?
Breath sounds, crepitus, pain, tubing, fluctuation, suction, air leak, drainage amount and color, dressing.
What is an assessment of a Chest tube patient.
Thick, milky drainage that may have unpleasant or foul smell and be yellowish tinge.
What is purulent drainage?
The amount of time suction should be turned off after medication administration.
What is 30mins to an hour?
This is used when transporting or ambulating a patient who requires suction.
What is portable suction?
This is the type of gauze used on a drain insertion site.
What is split gauze?
This is how often you should empty and document drain output.
What is Q4-8 hours as needed or ordered?
This drainage is thin and watery and made up of small amounts of blood and a clear, yellowish fluid called serum.
What is Serosanguineous drainage?
This is what you use to dilute each medication when administering through a G-tube or corpak.
What is 30-60mLs warm tap water?
This method along with an X-ray are the two ways to verify NG tube placement.
What is aspirating gastric contents?
Apply this when a chest tube is accidentally removed.
What is 4x4 gauze taped on 3 sides?
This is how often you change enteral syringes, tube feeding and tubing.
What is every 24 hours?
This drainage has a thick amount of blood present in it.
What is Sanguineous drainage?
The department that is notified if a patient needs their meds crushed through a tube.
What is the pharmacy?
The amount of suction applied to a purewick device.
What is 40-80 mmHg?
Type of drain that may have orders to flush with normal saline to keep patent.
What is a percutaneous drain?
The tab in which drain assessments are documented.
What is the Drain Tab?
This is poured into used suction cannisters before throwing them away.
What is Absorb?
The number one way to keep your Corpak or G-tube from clogging.
Flushing and diluting.
This is the frequency that CHG Foley care should be completed.
What is Q24H and as needed?
A type of drain that can be accessed at home by the patient for recurrent pleural effusions.
What is a PleurX drain?
The place in Paragon where all Intake and Output is charted.
What is the Flowsheet?
These are types of measuring devices.
What is a urine specimen cup or a graduated cylinder.
A type of drug that is not supposed to be crushed.
What is enteric coated/extended release?