The authors report a case of acute compartment syndrome in the thigh in a 19-year-old man with multiple injuries including fracture of the femoral diaphysis. Decompressive fasciotomy was performed emergently. Complete progressive closure of the wound without split-thickness skin grafting was achieved using a modified shoelace technique: sutures were run inside wide drains placed in contact with...

Previous Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Costing (LCC) studies on urban drainage systems only included construction materials in the system inventories. The present study aims to suggest an LCA LCC method that for first time, considers inventories from four main phases life cycle impact assessment, including extraction of aggregates production blocks, transportation, construction, civil work fi...

The installation of deep drains is an engineering approach to remediate land salinised by the influence of shallow groundwater. It is a costly treatment and its economic viability is, in part, dependent on the lateral extent to which the drain increases biological productivity by lowering water tables and soil salinity (referred to as the drains' zone of benefit). Such zones may be determined b...

OBJECTIVE Conventional, separate mediastinal and pleural tubes are often inefficient at draining thoracic effusions. DESCRIPTION We developed a Y-shaped chest tube with split ends that divide within the thoracic cavity, permitting separate intrathoracic placement and requiring a single exit port. In this study, thoracic drainage by the split drain vs. that of separate drains was tested. MET...

BACKGROUND Closed suction drains are widely used in breast reconstruction, and the drains are removed based on a volume criterion. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no study analyzing predictive factors for drainage volume after breast reconstruction. METHODS Data of daily drainage in cases with expander-based breast reconstruction between February 2013 and March 2015 (131...

BACKGROUND Subcutaneous surgical drains are commonly used in abdominoplasties to prevent seromas but are not tolerated well by patients and add additional discomfort after the procedure. The lipoabdominoplasty modification may create a more favorable surgical field to reduce the need for surgical drains without increasing seroma formation. OBJECTIVES The goal of this review was to determine i...

Extensive network of tile drains present in the Midwest USA accelerate losses of nutrients to receiving ditches, rivers and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. Nutrient inputs from agricultural watersheds and their role in affecting water quality have received increased attention recently; however, benthic sediment-nutrient interactions in tile-fed drainage ditches is still a matter of active res...

Background: Drains are hypothesized to cause surgical site infections (SSIs). However, research is scarce on how reduce SSIs after drain placement. We analyzed the association between specific characteristics and occurrence of SSI. also evaluated effects other known risk factors in patients undergoing plastic surgery SSIs.Methods: retrospectively reviewed medical charts 531 who underwent with p...

Objective. To assess the frequency of external cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drain-related CNS infections before and after implementation of a protocol for their prevention. Design. Quasi-experimental study, with comparison of incidence before and after the implementation of the intervention. Setting and participants. Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, Italy. Children receiving an external c...

BACKGROUND Thyroidectomy is one of the most common procedures and feared complication hematoma that obstructs airway, which leads to use drains, although evidence benefits its limited. OBJECTIVE To analyze frequency type surgery hospital stay in patients undergoing thyroid surgery. METHOD We included with diverse diseases without drains. The information was gathered retrospectively, including p...