A Review of Bowel Preparation Before Colorectal Surgery
- Authors
- Ju, Yeon Uk; Min, Byung Wook
- Issue Date
- 4월-2021
- Publisher
- KOREAN SOC COLOPROCTOLOGY
- Keywords
- Colorectal surgery; Mechanical bowel preparation; Oral antibiotics; Preoperative bowel preparation; Surgical site infection
- Citation
- ANNALS OF COLOPROCTOLOGY, v.37, no.2, pp.75 - 84
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- ANNALS OF COLOPROCTOLOGY
- Volume
- 37
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 75
- End Page
- 84
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/137688
- DOI
- 10.3393/ac.2020.04.01
- ISSN
- 2287-9714
- Abstract
- Infectious complications are the biggest problem during bowel surgery, and one of the approaches to minimize them is the bowel cleaning method. It was expected that bowel cleaning could facilitate bowel manipulation as well as prevent infectious complications and further reduce anastomotic leakage. In the past, with the development of antibiotics, bowel cleaning and oral antibiotics (OA) were used together. However, with the success of emergency surgery and Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, bowel cleaning was not routinely performed. Consequently, bowel cleaning using OA was gradually no longer used. Recently, there have been reports that only bowel cleaning is not helpful in reducing infectious complications such as surgical site infection (SSI) compared to OA and bowel cleaning. Accordingly, in order to reduce SSI, guidelines are changing the trend of only intestinal cleaning. However, a consistent regimen has not yet been established, and there is still controversy depending on the location of the lesion and the surgical method. Moreover, complications such as Clostridium difficile infection have not been clearly analyzed. In the present review, we considered the overall bowel preparation trends and identified the areas that require further research.
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