This procedure, like pancreatic drainage, is usually necessary after the direct surgical intervention that was performed on it. It is not uncommon, because in modern surgery there is the emergence of specific complications arising in the postoperative period and in more than half of the cases leading to death.
Such complications arise after surgery, performed according to the indications of patients with acute or chronic pancreatitis. They are associated with the formation of abscesses in the gland bag and under the diaphragm( most often), sometimes in some other parts of the abdominal cavity. Drainage in such situations is extremely necessary, since fistulas develop in the gastrointestinal tract, and as a result of insufficient outflow of fluid saturated with enzymes, bleeding begins from places where surgery has been performed. That is why timely drainage of the pancreas is important for preventing the development of complications: this helps to adequately open the foci in which purulent fouling accumulates, namely purulent complications most often lead to death.
Unfortunately, almost every existing method of drainage has a number of shortcomings and does not fully cope with the task: to ensure a timely and complete outflow of the escudata after surgery on the pancreas. Some of them can not be established without interrupting the course of the operation, the installation of others can lead to damage to the kidney and pleural cavity, etc. Sometimes, when performing surgery on the pancreas, there is a need to install two or more such systems, but although such drainage provides a better outflow of pus and an escudata, it is still not completely possible to eliminate flaws: air is sucked into the abdominal cavity, and the drains often turn out to beunreliable fixed, because of what fall out or shift.
Which way of draining to choose when performing an operation on the pancreas is decided by the doctor in each specific case, taking into account the patient's condition, his individual characteristics and many other factors. However, the importance of this procedure for patients with pancreatitis who underwent surgery is obvious.