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JP drain Teaching 1997

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The patient was instructed to return to the emergency department if: your JP drain breaks or comes out. You have cloudy yellow or brown drainage from your JP drain site, or the drainage smells bad.

Reviewed November 2017

Reviewed for general reference only. Adapt to your patient, agency policy, and scope of practice.

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