This research study is being conducted to study the effect of infusing your contents from your ostomy bag back into your intestine to re-train them prior to the ostomy takedown operation, which is a surgery to reverse your ostomy to put your intestine back together. Because your intestine past the ostomy hasn't seen any intestinal content for several weeks to months before the takedown operation, it is no longer used to handling the daily work of processing intestinal content and will take time to recover its normal function after surgery. We hope to speed up this process by training them before your planned surgery.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
20
infusing the contents of ileostomy output back into intestine of the patient
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
RECRUITINGtiming to return of bowel function
time to return of bowel function after stoma surgery
Time frame: 1-5 days
ease of stoma infusion
how easy was it for patients to infuse contents
Time frame: 2 weeks prior to surgery to time of surgery
complications
if there are any complications from using the stoma infusion
Time frame: 2 weeks prior to surgery to 30 days post operatively
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