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General Surgery

Intestinal Stomas

Built from Maingot's Abdominal Operations

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12 sections · 178 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Scope of this topic

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Stomas in general

    Definitions, who needs one, and the problems every stoma shares

    • Definition of an intestinal stoma
    • Names for each type of stoma
    • Family of stomas on the abdominal wall
    • Sources of data on stomas
    • 15,000
    • Complications recorded in the registry
    • 92%
    • Sexual function after proctectomy for cancer
    • Improvements in care and falling stoma numbers
    • Problems shared by every stoma
    • Peristomal varices and drug precautions
    • Preoperative marking and counselling
    • Steps in siting a stoma before surgery

    13 slides

  3. 03

    Colostomy

    Where in the colon, where on the abdomen, and for what purpose

    • Indications for a colostomy
    • Colostomy types by anatomic location
    • Physiology of the right and left colon
    • Effluent from a proximal versus a distal colostomy
    • Choosing the colostomy site on the abdominal wall
    • Colostomy classified by function

    6 slides

  4. 04

    The decompressing colostomy

    Blow-hole stoma, tube cecostomy and loop-transverse colostomy

    • Indications for a decompressing colostomy
    • Alternatives to a decompressing stoma
    • Strengths and weaknesses of a decompressing stoma
    • Three types of decompressing stoma
    • When a cecostomy or blow-hole colostomy is chosen
    • Technique of the blow-hole stoma
    • Decompressing and maturing the blow-hole stoma
    • Sequence of a blow-hole stoma
    • Blow-hole stoma: siting the incision and the first suture layer
    • Blow-hole stoma: second suture layer and opening the colon
    • The completed blow-hole stoma
    • Postoperative course of a blow-hole stoma
    • Technique of tube cecostomy
    • Tube cecostomy with a mushroom-tipped catheter
    • Tube cecostomy weighed up
    • Loop-transverse colostomy: purpose and limits
    • Siting a loop-transverse colostomy
    • Delivering the loop through the abdominal wall
    • Loop-transverse colostomy from site choice to matured stoma
    • Maturing the loop and its early care
    • Divided end-loop colostomy
    • Deciding when to close a temporary colostomy
    • Technique of colostomy closure
    • Colostomy closure: freeing the colon from the abdominal wall
    • Colostomy closure: stapled and hand-sutured repair

    25 slides

  5. 05

    The diverting colostomy

    End colostomy, mucus fistula, and life with irrigation

    • Indications for a diverting colostomy
    • Degree of diversion by a loop colostomy
    • Retraction and the vented distal limb
    • Options for the distal bowel at an end colostomy
    • Choosing between a closed stump and a mucus fistula
    • Marking the site for an end colostomy
    • End colostomy: site, colonic mobilisation and maturation
    • Mobilising the colon for an end colostomy
    • Making the opening in the abdominal wall
    • Maturing the end colostomy
    • The first appliance
    • Colostomy irrigation and what it offers
    • Principle, drawbacks and risks of irrigation
    • Patients unlikely to succeed with irrigation
    • Technique of colostomy irrigation

    15 slides

  6. 06

    Colostomy complications

    Stricture, necrosis, hernia, prolapse and perforation

    • Everyday colostomy problems and registry data
    • Gas, odour and bleeding
    • Origin of the term stoma maturation
    • Causes and repair of colostomy stricture
    • Colostomy necrosis: causes and assessment
    • How a paracolostomy hernia develops
    • Why the hernia forms where it does
    • Management of parastomal hernia
    • Colostomy prolapse
    • Treating colostomy prolapse
    • Colostomy perforation

    11 slides

  7. 07

    Ileostomy

    End, loop, divided end-loop and loop-end stomas, and their closure

    • What an ileostomy is and who needs one
    • Why ileostomy construction must be more precise
    • Types of ileostomy
    • Choosing the ileostomy site
    • Confirming the site and preparing the patient
    • Choice of abdominal incision
    • Ileostomy site, abdominal wall opening and ileal blood supply
    • Mobilising the distal ileum
    • Preserving the blood supply of the stoma
    • Preserved arcade and the ileum drawn through the wall
    • Making the abdominal wall opening
    • Sizing the opening and delivering the ileum
    • Fixing the mesentery and checking the ileostomy blood supply
    • Everting the ileostomy into a spout
    • Three-point sutures that evert the ileostomy
    • The first appliance and early skin care
    • Loop ileostomy: purpose and orientation
    • Marking the loop of ileum before delivery
    • Delivering the loop and the question of a twist
    • The obese patient and the supporting rod
    • Opening and maturing the loop ileostomy
    • Loop ileostomy matured over a supporting rod
    • Divided end-loop ileostomy
    • Divided end-loop ileostomy: transection and delivery
    • Working spout beside a small recessive opening
    • Divided end ileostomy for extra length
    • Loop ileostomy closure: timing and technique
    • Loop ileostomy closure: mobilising and cleaning the loop
    • Loop ileostomy closure: suture and stapled repair
    • Closing a divided end-loop ileostomy
    • Divided end-loop closure: excising the stoma site
    • Functional end-to-end stapled closure
    • Loop-end ileostomy: when it is needed
    • Technique of the loop-end ileostomy
    • Loop-end ileostomy: preserved mesentery and inverted end
    • Loop-end ileostomy: mesenteric fixation and rod support
    • Mucus from the recessive limb

    37 slides

  8. 08

    Living with an ileostomy

    Appliances, output, dehydration, blockage and skin

    • Parts of an ileostomy appliance
    • Outcomes with a well-built ileostomy
    • 1500 mL
    • How ileostomy dysfunction used to happen
    • How ileostomy dysfunction was solved
    • Appliance seal problems and chemical dermatitis
    • The appliance that seals to mucosa
    • Dehydration after ileostomy
    • Food bolus obstruction
    • Managing a blocked stoma
    • Algorithm for relieving a blocked ileostomy
    • High ileostomy output
    • Paraileostomy fistula and stoma injury

    13 slides

  9. 09

    The continent ileostomy

    An internal pouch with a nipple valve, and how to rescue it

    • What a continent ileostomy is
    • Selecting patients for a continent ileostomy
    • Continent ileostomy weighed up
    • Origin of the Kock pouch
    • Four components of a continent ileostomy
    • Measurements of the S-shaped pouch
    • Continent ileostomy: dividing the ileum and shaping the S-pouch
    • Suturing the pouch
    • Making the nipple valve
    • Stapling the nipple valve in place
    • Intussuscepting and stapling the nipple valve
    • The mesh collar and pouch suspension
    • Fixing the pouch and completing the stoma
    • Mesh collar, pouch fixation and the finished stoma
    • Draining the pouch after surgery
    • Complications of the continent ileostomy
    • Rescuing a failed nipple valve
    • Rescuing a slipped nipple valve: excision and pouch rotation
    • Rebuilt nipple valve with the mesh collar in place
    • Completed pouch and stoma after revision

    20 slides

  10. 10

    The urinary conduit

    Bowel used as a pipe for urine, and what goes wrong with it

    • What a urinary conduit is
    • Indications for a urinary conduit
    • Principles of conduit construction
    • Technique of ileal conduit construction
    • Ileal urinary conduit from segment isolation to ureteral stents
    • The conduit stoma and its appliance
    • Complications: a leaking appliance
    • Infection, odour and stones
    • Revision and relocation of a conduit stoma

    9 slides

  11. 11

    Fistulas and the laparoscopic approach

    Unplanned openings, and making or closing a stoma through keyholes

    • The unplanned intestinal fistula
    • Laparoscopic stoma creation and its evidence
    • Indications for a laparoscopic stoma
    • Advantage in near-obstructing rectal cancer
    • Trephine versus laparoscopic stoma creation
    • Laparoscopic technique: access and exploration
    • Laparoscopic technique: delivering the bowel
    • Confirming orientation for an end stoma
    • Early discharge and stoma teaching
    • Laparoscopic stoma closure
    • Two strategies for Hartmann reversal
    • Planning before a Hartmann reversal
    • Restoring continuity after an ileostomy

    13 slides

  12. 12

    Summary

    What to carry away from intestinal stomas

    • Key points: siting and construction
    • Key points: choosing the operation
    • Key points: complications and follow-up
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    • Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition

    15 slides