Management of traumatic enterocutaneous fistula

Lakshmikanth T, Ramana Reddy B

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 Lakshmikanth T^1,* and Ramana Reddy B^2,*

¹Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

²Department of General Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

*Corresponding authors: Dr. Lakshmikanth T, MS, FIGS(KMC, JAPAN), FSGE(NIMS), FLS, Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India and Dr. Ramana reddy, Department of General Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India. Email: rrboilla@gmail.com

Received 18 September 2013; Revised 24 December 2013; Accepted 31 December 2013

Citation: Lakshmikanth T, Ramana Reddy B. Management of traumatic enterocutaneous fistula. J Med Sci Res 2014; 2(1):24-28. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2014/2-005

Copyright: © 2014 Lakshmikanth T et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

 One of the most devastating complications to develop in the general surgical patient is an enterocutaneous fistula (ECF). Critically ill patients suffering trauma, thermal injury, and other acute intra abdominal pathology are at unique risk for this complication as well. This case report is to describe the epidemiology of ECF in the setting of trauma and critical illness, nutrition in injured/critically ill patients with ECF, wound care, surgical management of the ECF.

Keywords: Enterocutaneous fistula; Trauma; Management.