Complications after gastrostomy

Some patients with esophageal cancer or brain death cannot eat well or eat independently. At this time, the hospital will perform a gastrostomy, make an opening in the abdomen to connect to the stomach, and the patient will eat through a tube to maintain life. Any surgery will cause damage to the patient and cause complications, and this surgery is no exception. Therefore, it is very important to prepare protective care solutions after surgery. Let me give you a brief introduction below.

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Purse-string gastrostomy (Stamm) is a procedure that creates a channel leading to the outside of the body between the anterior wall of the stomach and the anterior abdominal wall to solve nutritional problems in some patients. There are many methods of gastrostomy, but they are generally divided into two categories: temporary gastrostomy and permanent gastrostomy. The choice can be made according to the nature of the patient's disease and prognosis.

Indications

For patients with esophageal cancer that cannot be surgically removed, this procedure can be used to relieve symptoms. For patients whose estimated survival period is longer than 3 months, permanent gastrostomy can be performed; for patients whose survival period is shorter than 3 months, temporary gastrostomy should be performed.

For patients with benign esophageal stricture, temporary gastrostomy can be performed as a preparatory surgery to facilitate subsequent radical surgery or dilation treatment.

For some special patients who undergo major abdominal surgery, a temporary gastrostomy is performed after the operation. It is used to relieve decompression in the early stage and can be used for feeding later to help the patient recover.

Valve tube type

Spivack valve tube gastrostomy is an improvement on the principle of tube gastrostomy. A valve is created at the base of the "gastric tube" to prevent spillage of gastric contents.

Indications

For patients with esophageal cancer that cannot be surgically removed, this procedure can be used to relieve symptoms. For patients whose estimated survival period is longer than 3 months, permanent gastrostomy can be performed; for patients whose survival period is shorter than 3 months, temporary gastrostomy should be performed.

For patients with benign esophageal stricture, temporary gastrostomy can be performed as a preparatory surgery to facilitate subsequent radical surgery or dilation treatment.

For some special patients who undergo major abdominal surgery, a temporary gastrostomy is performed after the operation. It is used to relieve decompression in the early stage and can be used for feeding later to help the patient recover.