| While possibly being one of the most commonly | | | | the patient and the situation of each particular |
| practiced and critically useful and versatile procedures | | | | procedure. |
| currently in medicine, the ostomy procedure remains | | | | Almost all ostomy procedures come with a pouching |
| relatively unknown. Most people have heard of some | | | | system that is designed to collect and contain the |
| variation of the ostomy procedure but they may not | | | | bodily waste a person produces. These pouching |
| know exactly what it is or how it works. | | | | systems have been modernized to efficiently collect |
| The ostomy procedure and its variations are grouped | | | | bodily waste and store it in a way that is easily |
| based on their use of an opening in the body that is | | | | disposed of at a later date. In this way the ostomy |
| used to drain waste or facilitate bodily processes. | | | | procedure allows the body relief from the waste |
| These procedures may be done in a variety of ways | | | | management processes that it normally undergoes. |
| and come in many variants designed to serve | | | | The reasons that a person may undergo an ostomy |
| individual functions and remedy a variety of problems. | | | | are varied and complex. In some situations an |
| Ostomy procedures come in both permanent and | | | | ostomy procedure may be necessary to sustain the |
| temporary forms depending on the nature of the | | | | health and welfare of a patient whose body is no |
| procedure and the condition involved. In some cases | | | | longer able to cleanse itself of waste in a timely and |
| a patient may undergo and ostomy just to facilitate | | | | normal way. In these cases, the ostomy may be |
| the healing process after a surgery and assist in the | | | | permanent if the body is not likely to regain these |
| removal of waste products. Other patients may need | | | | abilities. |
| an ostomy procedure as a more permanent solution | | | | In other situations where a patient undergoes |
| to dealing with bodily waste management. | | | | surgery or trauma and their body is now healing an |
| The ostomy procedure begins with the creation of a | | | | ostomy may be made to help relieve some of the |
| "stoma". The stoma is an opening in the body that is | | | | waste management jobs of the body while it heals. |
| designed to be a portal from which waste is | | | | In these situations a patient is likely to only have the |
| removed from the body. The stoma may be made | | | | ostomy for the duration that they are healing. |
| at a variety of locations depending on the needs of | | | | |