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Published on: March 12, 2019
The frequency of early stomal, peristomal and skin complications
Andrea Maglio1, Alessandro Pasquale Malvone2, Vitalba Scaduto2
1Enteral Stoma Nurse, General and Emergency Surgery, and Gastroenterological Surgery Departments, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Background:
The incidence of early complications after stoma formation (within 30 days of surgery) is difficult to determine and has been reported to be in a range of 3%-82%.
Aim:
The aim of this study was to analyse the onset of stomal, peristomal and skin complications one month (30 days) after ostomy creation.
Method:
This review analysed enteral stoma therapy nurse reports on patients who had an ostomy created between January 2016 and December 2020.
Findings:
Complications were analysed according to ostomy type: colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy. There were 1292 incidences of complications: skin complications were the most common (26%), and abscess the least common (0%).
Conclusion:
A majority (63%) of patients experienced at least one or more complications within 30 days of surgery. Haemorrhage was reported as a complication (2%) but the authors found no data on its incidence in the literature. In addition to early complications, late complications were detected.
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