Challenges in Stoma Creation: Pre-Op & Intra-Op (O)

Description

To learn some of the patient factors that challenge the surgeon's ability to create a stoma.

• To understand the technical creation of a stoma.
  
• To recognize how end and loop stomas differ in the technical creation.
  
• To identify potential marking issues for appropriate stoma creation.
  
• To learn communication skills to collaborate with surgeons for the benefit of the patient undergoing stoma creation.

Learner Outcome:

• To understand the technical creation of a stoma and how patient factors may challenge the surgeon's ability to create an appropriate stoma.

Speaker(s):

• Elizabeth Raskin, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Associate Professor, Chief of Division of Colorectal Surgery, University of California, Davis