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Day: September 2, 2017

Posted on 2 September 201712 September 2017

How to: Jackson-Pratt (JP) drain care

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If you have a mastectomy (with or without reconstruction), you’ll come home with at least one Jackson-Pratt (JP) drain. If you have axillary lymph node dissection, that will mean an additional drain. I had a bilateral mastectomy as well as the lymph node surgery, so I came home with three drains.

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