IR Drain???

JentheRN05, RN · Sep 14, 2005

You sure it's not a JP? Off the top of my head I don't remember an IR drain.

elizabells, BSN, RN · Sep 14, 2005

You sure it's not a JP? Off the top of my head I don't remember an IR drain.

It's definitely not a JP, she has one of those too! It's charted as an IR drain, but from my reading I think it might be a T-tube drain, but her chart doesn't say anything about a chole. She had a GI bleed and had her mesenteric artery embolized (that site LUQ is where the JP drain is) and the "IR" drain is in her RUQ.

JentheRN05, RN · Sep 14, 2005

I found it on google with ALOT of searching. Here's a link

http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/gastrointestinal_system/abdo_wall_ans.html

its the best I could come up with

elizabells, BSN, RN · Sep 14, 2005

I found it on google with ALOT of searching. Here's a link
http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/gastrointestinal_system/abdo_wall_ans.html
its the best I could come up with

Ahhhh, thank you nice lady! She must have had an abscess of the inferior rectus. Gack.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Sep 14, 2005

That would be a good link in the Nursing Student Forum's website sticky.

elizabells, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2005

I finally found out what it is! It's a drain placed by Interventional Radiology! It was in her bile duct.

MeliMont · Nov 3, 2011

I was just having the same problem! my pt has an IR drain and I couldn't figure out what it was! glad I ran into this website!

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Nov 3, 2011

and this is another reason why every hospital has a list of approved abbreviations that all persons charting should use. in this case, "inferior rectus" and "interventional radiology" are both plausible, but neither is complete. is that helpful? not too much.

it's always perfectly acceptable to write out the whole word or term. using an abbreviation that's unclear to you or others is not a way to make yourself look more knowledgable and, as you see from this example, will hinder care if it obscures reality.