Long segment “Hanging-snout” end ileosotmy a safe “Surgical disaster mitigating” technique for an “Un-brookeable” end ileum: a study of 23 cases over 12 years
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https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20215131Keywords:
Brooking, Restoration of bowel continuity, Un-Brookeable, Ray’s criteriaAbstract
Background: In 1952, Professor Bryan Brooke described his technique for everting an ileostomy in order to minimise skin excoriation1. Pouting, mucosa-everting Brooke’s ileostomy have been accepted as the best technique for stoma formation in almost all cases, save a few difficult situations – such as edematous friable bowel with bulky short mesentry! In such cases formation of standard Brooke’s ‘Pouting’ ileostomy is not only difficult, but an impossible and a dangerous surgical exercise! In these situations where the bowel is “Un-Brookeable” due to aforementioned causes. Over a period of 12 years we could device a formula – “Ray’s Criteria” to decide at operation, if a given ileum in a particular patient, is safely “Brookeable” (i.e. evertable into a neat Brooke, spouting ileostomy) or is “Un-Brookeable”.
Methods: 23 patients were included in this study over 12 years, who due to the peculiarity of their body morphology (obesity or thick abdominal fat), edematous friable bowel with bulky mesentry, the ileum could not be drawn outside the abdomen and everted as Brooke’s ileostomy. The “Brookeability” of the exteriorized ileum was decided based on satisfying two issues of Ray’s criteria.
Results: By using “Ray’s criteria”, we could seggregate patients safely as “Brookeable” and “Un-Brookeable”. Those deemed “Un-Brookable” underwent “Long segment Hanging snout” end ileostomy, which is the theme of our study.
Conclusions: We are emphatic in stating that by using “Ray’s criteria” we could accurately segregate cases into “Brookeable” and “Un-Brookeable” ileum.
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