This drainage occurs in much the same way that the gutters on a house draw the rain off the roof.
Draining the paracolic gutters without surgery.
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1 from 50 120 ml d from all the drains before the administration of nac to up to 500 ml d from the drain in the paracolic gutter 9 days after starting nac.
During the index admission abscess drainage was performed in 21 patients of which 19 patients were successfully managed without surgery on the index admission and two patients ultimately required surgery.
Overall 104 78 patients underwent successful conservative treatment whereas 30 22 patients underwent surgery during admission.
Therefore we instilled 6 ml of 10 nac into the drain in the left paracolic gutter every 3 4 hours.
We measured the drain output daily and noted a marked increase fig.
The right lateral paracolic gutter runs along the right side of the cavity of the abdomen.
In severe cases necrosis and inflammation can extend caudally toward the retroperitoneal spaces near the paracolic gutters.