Surgical site infection reduction bundle in stoma closure: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Advances in minimally invasive surgeries and pre-operative treatments allow the preservation of anal function through lower anastomosis in patients with rectal cancer, often necessitating temporary diverting stomas owing to the risk of anastomotic leakage. Stoma closure is associated with a high rate of surgical site infections (SSIs). Various measures, including purse-string skin sutures and negative-pressure wound therapy, have been implemented, and some guidelines recommend purse-string skin sutures as the standard method of stoma closure. However, at our institution, we used linear skin closure with an SSI reduction bundle. This study describes our stoma closure method and retrospectively analyses surgical outcomes.

Materials and methods

This retrospective s

SUBMITTER: Goto K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11914828 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature