By Goldberg Andrew
ISBN-10: 1860940773
ISBN-13: 9781860940774
This article is particularly designed to assist scholars to cross the surgical ultimate exam, focusing on matters and ideas which are inclined to confuse scholars. each one bankruptcy is sort of a educational, supplying pointers on what to claim and whilst to assert it and a logical method of answering questions.
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E. Redivac) and means that the collection is attracted into a bottle usually by suction. This reduces the risk of infection and is used for large spaces or cavities, such as after a mastectomy or joint replacement. Drains are usually removed as soon as possible (usually 24-48 h) or as soon as the losses begin to tail off. They should not usually be left in for more than 5 days as they can actually introduce infection. Open drainage, such as a piece of corrugated tubing with one end in the wound and the other in a dressing, allows small losses to escape from 38 Surgical Talk: Surgery for Finals the wound.
We tend to use a cephalosporin to cover the gram -ve organisms together with metronidazole to cover anaerobes. If you are concerned about strep faecalis you should add amoxycillin, as the cephalosporins do not cover this well. For operations on the biliary tree, such as a laparascopic cholecystectomy, you could either use the same regimen as above or just use a cephalosporin alone, as most infections are with gram -ve bacilli (mainly E. One dose at induction is sufficient. For improved biliary penetration such as before and after an ERCP or for ascending cholangitis, a broad spectrum j3-lactam such as pipericillin is often used.
Remember that a long laparotomy can lead to large losses of fluid by evaporation and this will not be measured on the charts. A urine output of less than about 30 ml per hour is poor (oliguria). Really the patient should be catheterized anyway at this point to measure the hourly urine output. U & E’s should be sent; if there is a prerenal cause, the urea will be raised. If from your clinical examination and your assessment of the fluid balance charts you think the patient has a prerenal cause, then you should try a fluid challenge -250-500 ml of normal saline given as a stat dose (unless you suspect blood loss as the cause, in which case the patient may be shocked and should be given colloids and blood - see section on shock).
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