Empty Wound Drainage Bottle

Empty wound drainage bottle is important to prevent overload of the fluid from the patient’s wound. It also to prevent infection from the fluid go back to the wound. The step to empty wound drainage bottle include clamp the drainage tubing, pour the fluid into a meter container and put pressure on the bottle before connect the tubing.

First, we need to clamp the drainage tubing because we want to prevent the bad fluid flow to bed area while remove the tubing from the bottle. . During we remove the tubing, we must remove it carefully. It is also to avoid fluid in drainage bottle will come out. If that happen, the bed and patient will dirty with the fluid.

Second, pour fluid into the meter container to measure the amount of fluid that come out from the infected wound. It is because we need to observe the amount each time we empty the bottle. If the amount of the fluid not come out too much, the wound is good in healing process.

Lastly, we need to put pressure on the bottle by compress the bottle before we connect back the tubing. We must to put pressure because to suck the bad fluid goes into the drainage bottle. We also must connect the tubing completely to avoid the fluid not come into bottle.

In my conclusion, empty wound drainage bottle is a simple procedure but we do it carefully to prevent other complication will happen to patient and maintain cleanliness.