Quicker intraoperative colonic irrigation

✍ Scribed by S. P. Y. Kwok; J. S. Varma; Professor A. K. C. Li

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Volume: 76
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800760626

✦ Synopsis

permanent ileostomy are encouraging. We believe that secondary megarectum is an indication for this operation as all our patients are continent and are able to defaecate; however, three of six still complain of abdominal pain and distension.

It is disappointing that the physiological results are unable to predict those patients having a poor outcome. In view of the emotional disorders seen in some of these patients we have embarked upon the use of an assessment of anxiety and depression as a screening procedure before surgical treatment. Preliminary results" seem to indicate that patients with high anxiety and depression scores are likely to do badly whatever physiological abnormalities are observed.