Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Role of Suction Drain in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Dr Shubhendu Das, Dr Anant Kumar Garg

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The use of suction drain in Total Knee Arthroplasty has been widely studied .Although there is no established evidence to support their use, in Total Knee Arthroplasty. In this prospective study we intend to do a comparative study between three different drain protocols in primary total knee arthroplasty. Patients were divided into three groups of 50 patients each, one group without any post-operative drain, another with post-operative suction drain for 24 hours and lastly the group with post-operative suction drain for 48 hours. We have evaluated the patients pre-operatively with knee range of motion, knee circumference, knee society score, functional knee score & VAS score. Patients who had undergone total knee arthroplasty with a post-operative suction drain were doing better. Putting drain after total knee arthroplasty does not cause any harm to the patients, rather it helps in rehabilitation of the patients in early post-operative period.

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ROLE OF SUCTION DRAIN IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY, Dr Shubhendu Das, Dr Anant kumar Garg GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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