A tube, usually of clear flexible plastic with lateral perforations, for draining a wound, abscess, etc.
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A 23-g needle is used to pierce the limbus to create an opening through which the drainage tube is passed into the anterior chamber.
Women usually go home with a drainage tube under the arm.
This is because when the drainage tube is blocked, the air in the middle ear is absorbed into the blood in the middle-ear lining.
He is in the bed alongside Amar and also has a drainage tube.
The glaucoma drainage device is a silicone device with a drainage tube and a hole-filled plate that fits the normal curvature of the eye.
A paraesophageal transdiaphragmatic drainage tube was placed.
Another complication is erosion of the drainage tube, which is limited by placement of the pericardial graft.
The allograft is cut and shaped to a desired size and is sutured in place over the drainage tube to prevent the tube from eroding into the conjunctiva.
A negative pressure or suction force is then applied across the wound via a drainage tube embedded in the foam.
A drainage tube is inserted, connecting the anterior chamber of the eye with a reservoir in the posterior orbit.
A man with an intracerebral drainage tube and an intravenous cannula died after he had been given penicillin intracerebrally rather than intravenously as prescribed.
Generally they go home with a small drainage tube and are seen back in the office or clinic within a week to have the drain removed.
If the condition does not respond to medical treatment, incision of the eardrum, removal of the fluid by suction and insertion of a drainage tube is required.
There will be a drainage tube in each side of your lower tummy to drain any blood or watery liquid that collects from the operation site. These drains are usually removed a few days after surgery.
The specialist will provide a new drainage exit from the middle ear by inserting a tiny plastic drainage tube called a grommet into the eardrum.
To make matters worse, just three days after the appendix operation, I had to undergo another surgery due to a broken drainage tube.