Safety and Effectiveness Evaluation of the COLO-BT as an Alternative Treatment to the Ileostomy

Exclusion criteria

• ✕. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
• ✕. Those who receive emergency surgery
• ✕. A person who is expected to need intensive medical care after the surgery due to a serious medical condition, with one or more of the following seven factors being true:
• ✕. A person who has difficulty in mobility or is unable to communicate in general due to a psychiatric/neurologic disorder falling under one or more of the following:
• ✕. Patients with intestinal perforation, abscess in the pelvis, or severe inflammation in the pelvis.
• ✕. Those who have a history of undergoing major surgeries (major bowel resection/major gastrectomy, major hepatectomy) through laparotomy and are likely to have serious adhesions that may affect this surgery.
• ✕. A patient who underwent a preoperative chemotherapy, but the anastomosis is expected to be located very close to the anus or in the anal canal, thus with a very high risk for complications of the anastomosis, or a patient whom the bowel function is expected to decrease significantly in the future.
• ✕. Patients who had pre-operative radiotherapy should be excluded.