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  2. Stoma (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The stoma is usually covered with a removable pouching system (adhesive or mechanical) that collects and contains the output for later disposal. Modern pouching systems enable most individuals to resume normal activities and lifestyles after surgery, often with no outward physical evidence of the stoma or its pouching system.

  3. Colostomy - Wikipedia

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    Only the proximal stoma is functioning. Most often, double-barrel colostomy is a temporary colostomy with two openings into the colon (distal and proximal). The elimination occurs through the proximal stoma. Colostomy surgery that is planned usually has a higher rate of long-term success than surgery performed in an emergency situation.

  4. Ostomy system - Wikipedia

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    An ostomy pouching system [1] is a prosthetic medical device that provides a means for the collection of waste from a surgically diverted biological system (colon, ileum, bladder) and the creation of a stoma. Pouching systems are most commonly associated with colostomies, ileostomies, and urostomies. [2]

  5. Mannequins provide 'vital' hands-on nurse training - AOL

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    Other skills which can be practiced on the mannequins, which can be adjusted to suit both male and female anatomy, include taking pulses, taking blood, catheterisation, and stoma care. 'Skilled ...

  6. Wound, ostomy, and continence nursing - Wikipedia

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    Wound, ostomy, and continence nursing is a nursing specialty involved with the treatment of patients with acute and chronic wounds, patients with an ostomy (those who have had some kind of bowel or bladder diversion), and patients with incontinence conditions (those with issues of bladder control, bowel control, and associated skin care).

  7. Fashion show to celebrate young people with stoma bags - AOL

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    Daisy is under the care of Birmingham Children's Hospital and will be part of an event to raise awareness of young people who have stomas. "I literally wear bikinis on holiday, I can wear whatever ...

  8. Enterostomy - Wikipedia

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    An enterostomy (entero-+ -stomy; / ɛ n t ə ˈ r ɒ s t oʊ m i /) is either (1) a surgical procedure to create a durable opening (called a stoma) through the abdominal wall into an intestine (small intestine or large intestine) or (2) the stoma thus created. The various types of enterostomy are named according to which intestinal segment is ...

  9. Ileostomy - Wikipedia

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    Ileostomy is a stoma (surgical opening) constructed by bringing the end or loop of small intestine (the ileum) out onto the surface of the skin, or the surgical procedure which creates this opening. [1] Intestinal waste passes out of the ileostomy and is collected in an external ostomy system which is placed next to