Credits: None
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Expiration Date: Not applicable

Speaker:
Elizabeth Raskin, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Associate Professor, Chief of Division of Colorectal Surgery, University of California, Davis

Program Overview:
To learn some of the patient factors that challenge the surgeon's ability to create a stoma.

• To understand the technical creation of a stoma.
• To recognize how end and loop stomas differ in the technical creation.
• To identify potential marking issues for appropriate stoma creation.
• To learn communication skills to collaborate with surgeons for the benefit of the patient undergoing stoma creation.

This program was featured as part of the WOCNext 2019 conference.