Intestinal Ostomy: Classification, Indications, Ostomy Care and Complication Management

Ostomy care and radiation therapy.

Basic ostomy management, part 1.

Social and family dynamic with patients with definitive intestinal ostomy.

RATIONAL The person who undergoes a definitive intestinal ostomy experience significant changes in social and family dynamics. Most of the time the patients are fragile by risk due to the new situation. AIM To analyze the social dynamics of people with permanent intestinal stoma. METHOD Qualitative research on the basis of information collected at the time of the monthly withdrawal of colle...

Use of Convexity in Ostomy Care

Ostomy skin barriers that incorporate a convexity feature have been available in the marketplace for decades, but limited resources are available to guide clinicians in selection and use of convex products. Given the widespread use of convexity, and the need to provide practical guidelines for appropriate use of pouching systems with convex features, an international consensus panel was convene...

Ostomy or intestinal anastomosis in cases of peritonitis.

Twenty-six patients showing peritonitis due to nontraumatic acute abdomen were submitted to ostomy. Mean age was 51 years (range 25-83), being 13 males and 13 females. Bowel obstruction (BO) was the most frequent cause of peritonitis (11 cases), followed by intestinal perforation (IP) (8 cases), acute mesenteric infarction (AMI) (5 cases), and acute abdomen of inflammatory/infectious origin (AA...