Abdominal Drains After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: Should They Be Used?

Lucía Aragone Francisco Thibaud Mariana Toffolo Pasquini Matías Mihura Daniel Enrique Pirchi

Published in: Journal of metabolic and bariatric surgery (2024)

In our study, no clear diagnostic or therapeutic benefits of the systematic use of drains for GSLL or PB in LSG was found; but drain use did show a considerable rate of DRSSI, which must be taken into consideration prior to considering drain systematic use. While no randomized prospective trials have been performed, the retrospective data does not support drain systematic use.

Keyphrases

double blind
open label
heavy metals
cross sectional
electronic health record
placebo controlled
clinical trial
randomized controlled trial
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phase ii