Recording output from a CTT drainage

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

good day,

after a chest tube insertion, what is the standard amount of fluid that is initially filled in the drainage bottle? does it have to be sterile nss? how to document or record output from a ctt drainage? do i have to drain every shift and fill in again with the standard amount of fluid? :o

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Specializes in Med Surge, Tele, Oncology, Wound Care.

We use sterile water. Fluid usually goes to -20cm level, but the md orders might say otherwise.

You will refill the water more frequently if it is attached to suction, due to evaporation. A chest tube system is a closed sterile system and is only opened when the system is full with drainage and needs to be replaced.

I have not worked with glass bottles in quite some time. I measure the output by placing a mark with tape when I first walk into the pts room and go from there. Always have a package ready at bedside of foam tape, Vaseline gauze, clamps, gauze and suture removal kit- both for the patient and the md, saves a lot of time and grief running for supplies.

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Best to read your facility's procedure manual. It's been many years since I've seen anything other than a closed system that does not get drained at all, and has measurements marked directly on it..

Even if you are still using a glass bottle system, nothing gets drained.

Is this a homework question?!!!

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Specializes in ER, Trauma.

Sorry, I don't recognize your flag. What country are you in? Don't see glass bottles used much in the U.S, but I could use a little refresher just in case.

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Specializes in Family NP, OB Nursing.

I think it's the flag of the Philippines.

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Specializes in SICU, Peds CVICU.

What does the second "t" stand for?

(Chest Tube T...ube?)

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

chest tube thoracotomy :D

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Sorry, I don't recognize your flag. What country are you in? Don't see glass bottles used much in the U.S, but I could use a little refresher just in case.

It's a small image, but I think it's the flag of the Philippines.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
It's a small image, but I think it's the flag of the Philippines.

Czech Republic?

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Specializes in MS.

Its the flag of the Philippines. a country in southeast Asia, producer and importer of nurses, A country under Spanish Colony for more than 300 years and ceded to Americans and a strong ally of USA.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
Its the flag of the Philippines. a country in southeast Asia, producer and importer of nurses, A country under Spanish Colony for more than 300 years and ceded to Americans and a strong ally of USA.

While I do not question any of your facts about the Philippines, the only difference I see it that the Philippines flag has some yellow stars in the white part of the flag, while the Czech Republic does not (otherwise, the flags appear nearly identical). Now, on the small flag for the OP I don't see any yellow on the white field--the again, this might be my crappy computer. Either way, I would like to hear back from the OP.

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Specializes in Family NP, OB Nursing.

Czech flag has a blue triangle with white and blue stripes.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/flags/czech-republic-flag.html

Pretty sure it's Philippine flag.

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