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- Title
Complications in colostomy patients: analysis and assessment of risk factors.
- Authors
Denti, Francesco Carlo; Maglio, Andrea; Brambilla, Davide; Scaduto, Vitalba
- Abstract
Background: The increasing prevalence of people living with a colostomy (and a stoma in general) has made understanding, assessing and managing stomal complications an increasingly important objective. Aims: The aim of this study was to analyse the onset of stomal complications in relation to comorbidities to evaluate any predisposing pathologies. Methods: This retrospective analysis was conducted on the patient records of colostomates admitted to a hospital in Milan, Italy, from 2015 to 2018. Findings: The analysis showed that 54% of patients presented with more than one complication. The most common were peristomal skin lesions (42%) and oedema (25%). The disease that showed the highest correlation with stomal complications was heart disease (23%). Conclusions: Despite a limited sample size of 101 patients, this study demonstrated a correlation between stomal complications and heart disease. Nurses should pay particular attention to ostomates with cardiovascular issues.
- Subjects
ITALY; SURGICAL complication risk factors; HEART disease complications; COLOSTOMY; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL records; PATIENTS; RISK assessment; SKIN diseases; SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ACQUISITION of data methodology; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Gastrointestinal Nursing, 2020, Vol 18, pS12
- ISSN
1479-5248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/gasn.2020.18.Sup9.S12