[nickydwuk]

Originally Posted by MotherBear

I'm a bit perturbed that no one has answered my question above yet. Does that mean it's quite an unpleasant procedure to remove the T tube and no one wants to alarm me?

Nothing of the sort. I have been doing some researech for you. All the patients I have nursed have had all their drains removed prior to discharge and they were the bog standard straight wound drains. However I have found out that removing the T tube is quite painful and some doctors have done it without any anaesthetic. As you are having a local it should be more uncomfortable than painful. I could not find any reference to cutting you further to remove it so they should be able to pull it through the current opening. If that is the case then the 'T' part of the tube cannot be too long either side. Are you still draining a lot of fluid from the drain site?