Enterotome

Entero is the part of the human gastrointestinal tract that connects the small intestine and large intestine. The main function of this part is to digest food, obtain nutrients, and also remove metabolic waste products from the body. An enterotog is an instrument for surgically cutting and then wrapping the intestine.

**Enterotomy** is a surgical operation to dissect an organ, such as the intestine. Enterotomes are also used during a patient’s planned surgical intervention.

In this article I want to talk about such an endoscopic instrument as an enterotomy instrument.

Enterotome is an endoscopic suture material that is used to fix the walls of the gastrointestinal tract during surgery. It is in the form of a thread that is tied into a continuous suture with the intestinal walls. During surgery, this suture material helps secure the wall of the gastrointestinal tract and prevents it from moving further, which can lead to serious complications such as bleeding or infection.

So, Enterotomes are used to open the abdominal cavity to examine the intra-abdominal cavity and surgical treatment of diseases of the abdominal cavity. Instruments

Enterotomy is a surgical operation that involves opening a hollow organ with subsequent excision of part of its walls. It is performed using the endoscopic method.

During the intervention, the surgeon makes an incision in the wall of a cavity, for example, the intestines or stomach, and then removes the affected part, excises adhesions, applies sutures and drains the wound.

Enterotomy can be performed for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Depending on the location of the intervention, there are types of such operations: gastrostomy, duodenotomy, ileostomy, colopexy, nasogastric, transversotomy and others. Today, the main reason for performing this procedure remains the limitation of the patient’s physical activity as a consequence of complications that have developed after previous illnesses and injuries.

Purpose of the operation The main indications for enterotomy are:

- the presence of ulcerative fissures and other lesions of the digestive system that are no longer amenable to conservative treatment, an intervention is performed; - perforation of the ulcer (violation of the integrity of the mucous membrane); - serious problems associated with intestinal obstruction; - disruption of the blood supply to the intestinal wall.