What is Enterostomy?

Enterostomy is a surgery that creates an opening in the abdominal wall of the patient and in most cases connects it to the opening in the small intestine. This procedure is usually performed in cases where the patient has a patient or damaged intestine, which may require removal of fecal waste from the body before reaching the intestines. In some cases, the intestines or colon the patient may have been surgically removed to treat cancer or other diseases. Patients may receive enterostomy, which allows feeding through the enterostomy tube in the abdominal wall, which in some cases connects directly into the stomach. The surgeon combines the section of the patient's ileum to the abdominal opening to create a stoma that allows in most cases to remove fecal waste from the ileum. Patients who undergo Brooke ileostomy usually wear a special appliance that fits a plastic bag flat against the stomach hole. These patients generally empties fecal and liquid waste from the attached bag according to the doctor's instructions. IleostomyThe continent usually includes the formation of a valve at the end of the stoma that holds the collected waste in the abdomen until the patient puts the tube into the valve and removes the accumulated waste from the stomach.

In some cases, patients may undergo the enterostomy of the tube to allow the insertion of liquid nutritional supplements inserting the abdominal stoma directly into the patient's stomach. This type of surgery can be used in some patients who have recently undergone nose or mouth surgery that limits normal food intake. Feeding a liquid tube is generally more effective than intravenous feed for many patients who are able to spend liquid food in their intestinal tract. The enterostomy of the tube is usually performed when the patient needs to feed the tube for at least six weeks.

Before enterostomy, the physician may recommend that the patient stop taking certain medicines that can thinner blood such as warfarin oranti -inflammatory drugs. Surgeons usually perform enterostomy in a hospital environment with an open procedure used by one large abdominal cut or a laparoscopic procedure that uses several smaller cuts in the abdomen. During this type of operation, patients usually receive general anesthesia. Most patients remain in the hospital two to four days after this kind of surgery and often have special dietary restrictions.