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Experience with suction/negative pressure dressings
So last Thursday I had a bilateral "Goldilocks" mastectomy - it's Tuesday now, so today is the fifth day post-op. I had three nights in hospital and was discharged on Sunday, and every day has fe...
Hello, I had a Pico dressing that sounds similar, not sure if it was the same thing. Mine was not applied correctly so the little devices attached at the end of the ‘drains’ kept beeping and switching off as well. I used to have really bad sleep because I’d keep waking up to try and get them working again. Same throughout the day. I had them for 7 days and was also thankful to finally have them removed. I think the problem was that they were not put on correctly post-op and that then keeps creating issues and defeating their purpose.