title: Stoma care.
abstract: Without doubt a most, if not the most, spectacular advance in the surgery of the colon and rectum in the last decade has been the vastly improved management of abdominal stomas and fistulas. This has been accomplished by a re-organisation of stoma care, aceptance by surgeons of the need to site their stomas with more precision and better apparatus.
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003125:Colostomy / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D007081:Ileostomy / Q000295:instrumentation; D009790:Occupations; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014837:Voluntary Health Agencies