TY  - JOUR
T1  - CEcostomy and continuous coloclysis in general peritonitis and other conditions
AU  - REED CL
Y1  - 1909/05/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.25420470025001e
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1659
EP  - 1660
VL  - LII
IS  - 21
N2  - A method of treatment that I have been using, for some time, in certain cases of general peritonitis and in some other conditions, is as follows:Recognizing that general peritonitis is always the result of infection, I place the patient in the Trendelenburg position and operate in the usual way to find, and, if possible, to remove the source of infection.Whatever may be the details of that operation, I bring up the cecum and fix it in an incision made directly over its situs, open the loop thus anchored, and in the opening I insert a soft rubber catheter which I fix by a suture to the abdominal wall.I then put a self-retaining effluent tube into the rectum.Through the cecal tube I subject the colon to such treatment and usage as the then existing and subsequently changing conditions may require.Under this last heading comes, first and
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.25420470025001e
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420470025001e
ER  -