subject: What Is Indiana Pouch? [print this page] Indiana pouch is surgically created urinary diversion pouch intended to store and eradicate the patients urine after removing his bladder through a surgery. It is a kind of surgical pouch made separate from where the patients active bowel movement is being drained. The patient is being catheterized in order to empty his urine.
Indiana pouch surgery is surgically designed to help the patients who can no longer excrete their urine after the removal of their bladder due to bladder cancer, bladder exstrophy or neurogenic bladder. After the surgery, the patient is required to stay in the hospital for more than 7 days in order to monitor his condition. Aside from this, he will be given enough instruction about the urinary diversion procedure that he will going to undergo.
The patients healing process takes time due to the effect of surgery. The process is not that easy on the part of the patients because it needs more patience and thorough understanding in using the said pouch. Fact that there are three tubes drainage is being place in the patients abdomen, one in his stoma, the other one is place through another temporary opening in the abdominal wall into the pouch and to the SP tube.
This procedure is prompted with doctor supervision until such time that the patient will be allowed to go home. After the healing time of the patient due to a surgery, the doctor will still visit the patient and check his physical condition. If the doctor is already convince that the patient is healed, he will advice the patient what are the things needed to be done. Like, the proper way of catheterizing the pouch for every hours required. Likewise, the manner on how to drain or empty the pouch and how to clean the same using the steriled water.
Further, in oder for the patient to sleep well at night he needs to empty the pouch at a specific hours or not more than 4 hours. This will protect him from any infection and other complication due to in appropriate usage. This will take time to repeat the process for more or less one month. Although this is said to be hassled on the part of the patient but in the future he will immune from this kind of routinely work.
Indiana pouch is said to be more convenient on the part of the patient who had undergo surgical operation on his bladder. It is because the patient doesnt need to use the external pouch to be attached into his abdomen in storing his urine. And with this, the patient has more freedom to do the things he usually do before the surgery. This will allow him to be more confident and more convenient to do the physical move. Meaning the patient can live a normal life after the surgery despite of the fact that his urinary diversion surgery. In addition, using the said pouch will protect him from any possibility of having any kidney trouble or damage.
Thus, nowadays most doctors whose patients have been diagnosed to have a bladder cancer highly recommends this type of urinary diversion to the patients as their elective surgery.
