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Important update for Medena Catheter users

Important update for Medena Catheter users

Updated 31 January 2023

Further to our previous update on 13, December 2022, we have been notified by Wellspect that the Medena catheter is now available to order. Product codes remain the same.

If you experience any difficulty in obtaining supplies, please contact Wellspect Ltd on 01453 791 763.


Updated 13 December 2022

After weeks of uncertainty, the UK-based supplier/manufacturer Wellspect has agreed to restart production of the Medena catheter.

Petya Marinova, St Mark’s Hospital’s lead nurse (pouch and stomacare), said: “We have been in close discussions with Wellspect and helping with whatever we can and they have agreed to restart production of the Medena catheter in the next two months“.

“It will be produced by a different company (YourRad AB in Sweden), but the design remains the same and Wellspect will continue as UK distributor. All existing Medena product codes should remain the same.”

Meanwhile, the St Mark’s pouchcare team have been analysing the results of trials on a similar product – the Marlen catheter. “If the Marlen catheter company decides to go ahead with introducing the Marlen product to the UK market it will take about 9 to 12 months,” said Petya.

“Meanwhile if someone is running low on catheters, our St Mark’s pouchcare team has enough Medena catheters to send emergency stock to whoever may need them.”

THIS IS FANTASTIC NEWS FOR ALL THE J-POUCH AND KOCK POUCH PATIENTS THAT RELY ON THE MEDENA CATHETER!


Updated 15 July 2022

Would you like to particpate in trial of a potential replacement product?

A significant number of J pouch owners use the Medina Catheter to assist with emptying their pouch. Following the announcement that the Medina Catheter is being withdrawn from production, we are pleased to announce that a potential replacement product has been identified and the Pouch Nurse team at St. Mark’s Hospital is now in the process of starting a trial with the new Marlen catheter.

They are currently working closely with the company to introduce the product in the UK, including Drug Tariff approval.

The plan is to start officially trialling the Marlen catheters, hopefully at the beginning of August (pending delivery and logistics).  

We wish to help them by identifying existing medina catheter users who would like to participate in the trial. They will be looking for a small sample of 10-15 people initially.  

All participants would need to provide feedback and agree for their anonymous testimony to be shared and used in research. 

If you are interested in participating in this trial, would you please send your details to info@pouchsupport.org. Further details will be provided in due course.


Updated 24 November 2021

The following response was received from the marketing manager at Wellspect on 5 November 2021

We are still actively looking at potential alternative products. We have one promising option we are exploring at the moment, although it is not currently available in the UK. If it proves suitable, the next step would be to find a UK distributer willing to take it on. I have kept your contact details and will let you know how this progresses. 

In the meantime, we have sufficient stock of the Ileostomy catheter and have not yet taken a decision on the eventual date for discontinuation in the UK. On current usage rates we have significantly more than 6 months available. While I completely understand their concern, I would urge all users to continue to order as normal.


Posted 15 June 2021

Unfortunately, our ileostomy catheter is produced in very small volumes and global demand is both low and in steady decline. We have therefore had to take the difficult decision to discontinue this product.

At current UK usage rates we will have sufficient stock to continue supply for a minimum of 6 months. While there are no direct alternatives currently available on the UK Drug Tariff, we are actively looking at products with other manufacturers/suppliers which may prove suitable.

We’ll aim to keep you informed regarding an exact date after which the product will no longer be available on prescription and also if there is any progresses with alternative manufactures/suppliers.

In the meantime, I’d like to extend my apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.


We have responded explaining that, while they label the product an “ileostomy catheter”, it is in practise also used by many J Pouch (and other pouch) owners, and the planned discontinuance is causing much distress in the pouch community.

We will keep you informed of any updates in particular with regard to a replacement product.

On that subject, Theresa Parr (RLG committee member) has for some time been an advocate of the Aquaflush system as an alternative to the Medina Catheter. It is also available on prescription. See here for further information.

Events

Ileo-anal Surgery – A Guide for Patients


Ileo-anal Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis – A Guide for Patients

Republished 11 April 2022

Zarah Perry-Woodford

Stop Press – Zarah Perry-Woodford will be participating in the Moderated Q&A session on Pouch Care at the Red Lion Group Internal Pouch Information day at Central Middlesex Hospital on Saturday, 14th May 2022.

In 2016, St Mark’s Hospital Academic Institute proudly announced its first ever book publication “Ileo-Anal Pouch Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis – A Guide for Patients”, written by Zarah Perry-Woodford, lead nurse – pouch and stoma care, St Mark’s Hospital.

Zarah has worked at St Mark’s hospital since 2002 and as the lead pouch nurse and practitioner since 2005 providing expert care to patients with ileo-anal pouches.

The book is an invaluable resource for people living with or considering an internal (Ileo-anal) pouch or J-Pouch. You can find out more about the book and how to purchase by clicking on the image below.

The Red Lion Pouch Support Group is delighted to announce that Zarah will be participating in the Moderated Q&A session on pouch care at its Internal Pouch Information Day to be hosted at Central Middlesex Hospital on Saturday, 14th May 2022.

You can find out more about the Information Day and reserve your place by clicking here.

Register your place soon as places are limited!

News

You may qualify for financial support

You may qualify for financial support from the Kingston Trust

If you have a stoma or an ileo-anal pouch, are over sixteen years of age and are experiencing financial hardship – you may qualify for a grant from the Kinsgton Trust.

Available to residents of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland.

For further details visit the Kingston trust website here. Or contact the Kingston trust secretary by email secretary@kingstontrust.org.uk or phone 01256 353320.

Download an information poster below.

Click Here to download.

Stories

I get high with a little help from my…

A healthy love of walking turned into a more serious passion for rock-climbing for Michael Teanby thanks to the advice of a friend and a change of girlfriend

Perched on a long narrow ledge 40 metres above the sea and about 40m below the clifftop, the pressure was growing, the pressure that had replaced the normal ‘urge’ for a bowel motion 11 years ago. The setting sun was still warming the rock and my girlfriend was about to set off on the second pitch1 of the Atlantis/True Moments/Freebird route2; the long weaving route is a bit of a sought-after classic on the Castle Helen sea cliffs of Holyhead. 

Michael Teanby mid-climb

As I was shifting uneasily on the belay stance3 regretting my earlier choice of downing that second cup of tar [I like to call coffee], my pouch emitted an audible grumble. Looking at my girlfriend I uttered ‘the time is nigh’, crag code for ‘I really need the toilet’. 

Unfortunately, there was the problem of our current position; the only way off the ledge was another two hours of climbing. So, making a hollow under a thick section of moss, there I perched baring all on the narrow ledge, hoping to make do with the four sheets of tissue I found in my back pocket. Thankfully we had the cliff to ourselves and I have a very understanding partner. 

There were however a couple of day fishers in boats who had been watching our steady progress up the cliff, and a kayaking party passing by; I just hope they weren’t using binoculars! 

Burying my embarrassment and scratching a small apology onto a nearby loose rock before using it to weigh down the moss, we turned our attention back to the route’s second pitch the ‘True Moments’ traverse4. Eugenie set off steadily, calming her nerves for what was to come – before her lies a 15m traverse across slightly suspect rock. At the end of the traverse a bold vertical 8m section of climbing remains, the crux5 is 4-5m above the last good piece of protection. A fall certainly wouldn’t mean death, but you’d definitely be shaken as the ropes caught you after 10m of free fall. 

Fortunately, all went well; we gained the top without further issue just as the sun was setting over the Irish Sea, the summer’s heat still radiating from the red quartzite rockface that had facilitated our passage up the cliff, and the coconut scent of the gorse flowers drifting by on the breeze. My life had never been better.

Occasions like this are surprisingly rare for me. Compared to the usual three hours, when climbing I can often go six to eight hours without needing the toilet, and despite not changing my diet in preparation, there is usually ample time to bag6 a route and remain in comfort. I don’t know why; maybe it’s just the adrenaline slowing my digestive system as blood is diverted to more critical areas, though that too is strange as I find climbing relaxing. There’s an addictive flow to it, that perfect level of clarity and stress that comes from having your entire being focused on a single task.

Mountains and cliffs haven’t always been part of my life. The Lincolnshire Wolds and salt marshes of my youth are quite devoid of rock. In 2011, two years after I’d lost my left kidney to an adhesion, a friend invited me to North Wales. Nothing special, just a walk up Snowdon, but I was hooked. 

Over the next three years my bond with this friend grew stronger, walks got continuously steeper and more technical, and we’d spend a week each summer roaming across the mountains of Scotland. Technically it’s called scrambling, it blurs the line between walking and rock climbing. In 2014 I picked up my first rope. As our scrambles were getting steeper still, learning how to protect ourselves correctly seemed prudent. We were soon moving across terrain that three years before would have seemed like an insane proposition, but here we were playing in the mountains to our hearts’ content.

Climbing has added a great deal to my ‘mental toolkit’. My stress response improved, and my social skills, situational awareness, general fitness and outlook on life all shifted thanks to this wonderful pursuit and the welcoming community that surrounds it. Though not all without cost. As my love (obsession?) for rock and adventure grew, so did a rift in my relationship at the time. We’d been together for nearly 10 years but 2016 saw an end to that. She’d been with me through all my surgeries and stuck with me. There was once love but it had faded; arguments would start and end with threats like “you’ll not find anyone who’ll accept your condition”.

At times I was no kinder; looking back I realise that I was becoming ever more distant and continually more uninterested in the relationship. That’s what decided it, I wouldn’t stay in one relationship out of fear of rejection in another; it just wasn’t healthy. I’d always been completely open about my condition with friends and climbing partners and never once had someone not welcomed me or accepted my toilet habits.

Enter Eugenie, the wonderful woman who four years later would be sat at one end of a narrow ledge 40m above the sea, giggling at the ridiculousness of the situation whilst I wrestled with my harness trying to relieve myself a couple of metres away, all the while hoping another team of climbers didn’t appear. She’s sat there giggling a lot to be fair – the multiple times I’ve forgotten my toilet kit whilst heading to a crag, only to watch me gather various leaves to use as a paper substitute. For reference the best is sphagnum moss, naturally moist and quite durable, as good as a baby wipe and compostable.

Hopefully 2021 will allow me to return to the mountains I love so much, and maybe I’ll see a few of you among them? Just remember a toilet kit, not all areas offer substitutes as kind on the skin as sphagnum moss.

Michael checks his phone messages

The climber’s glossary:

1 A pitch is a rope length (50-80m)

2 The name of a tour in climbers’ language

3 The belay stance is a climber’s position when anchored to a rock and paying the rope out to a lead climber

4 To traverse means to move horizontally across the rock instead of vertically

5 The crux is the hardest section of a route

6 To ‘bag’ a route means to finish it


This article first appeared in ISSUE 60: Christmas 2020 edition of ROAR! if you would like to read other articles like this, why not become a member of the Red Lion Pouch Support group? You will receive a printed copy of ROAR! twice a year and have online access to archive ROAR! editions going all the way back to 1994.

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HLA-B27 – The genetic link connecting UC and other…

HLA-B27 – The genetic link connecting UC and other autoimmune conditions?

If you have suffered with Ulcerative Colitis, there is a possibility that you may be affected by other inflammatory (autoimmune) conditions such as uveitis or spondylitis.  There is a link between these conditions which is the HLA-B27 gene.

by Gary Bronziet, Membership Secretary Red Lion Group (25.09.2020)

As a young man, in addition to my UC, I also suffered with uveitis (an inflammation of the eyes) and back pain. I hoped that when I got rid of my “ropey colon” (that was way back in 1984) these other conditions would magically disappear but alas, they did not.

Over the years I continued to have occasional flare-ups of uveitis. Aware of my history of UC, my ophthalmologist at Moorfields was the first consultant to mention the link between the two conditions and the HLA-B27 gene. He referred me to be tested for the gene, a simple blood test.


“About half of all people with anterior uveitis have the HLA-B27 gene. The gene has been found in people with certain autoimmune conditions, including ankylosing spondylitis and ulcerative colitis“. From NHS website article https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/uveitis/causes/


Surprisingly, my own HLA-B27 test came back negative – although the consultant at the time said that it wasn’t always a conclusive test. 

Over time, my pouch has been extremely well-behaved and the uveitis flare-ups less frequent. My ongoing “chronic” condition has been my lower back pain and to a lesser extent, other joints including my elbows. As a keen golfer that is not an ideal situation. When asked for my handicap, my usual answer is ‘my back’!

I’ve had my back poked, prodded and scanned by a stream of spinal surgeons. The first diagnosis after an MRI was L5 disc degradation. More recently after a second MRI scan a spine surgeon advised that my “disc degradation” was “not unusual for someone of my age” and not the cause of my back pain. Being aware of my history of UC he suggested another type of scan. This was a nuclear (SPECT-CT) scan, which is used to identify inflammation. Sure enough, my spine was riven with inflammatory “hot spots”. 

I have soldiered on over the years, taken up Pilates (which I strongly recommend) and occasional facet joint injections which give temporary relief.

Which brings me back to where I started in this article and the HLA-B27 gene. I recently resorted to diagnosis by Google and have convinced myself that my back and joint symptoms are probably spondylitis (AS). This would not be surprising considering my history of UC and uveitis.

I have considered having another test for the gene, but I’m not sure it would make any difference to the prognosis. However, it might be that my next step should be to find a good rheumatologist rather than an orthopaedic surgeon. 

I wonder how many of you have a similar history and whether you have been tested for the HLA-B27 gene? If you have any experiences to share, feel free to write to me at gary@bronziet.com

Gary Bronziet


Red Lion Group

Ankylosing Spondylitis

News

Mental health support for pouchees and ileostomists – survey

Zeina Bushnaq, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Roehampton, is doing a Doctorate in Psychology and has a particular interest in the mental health support offered to pouchees and ileostomists.

She is currently looking for volunteers to complete a simple, online survey to help with her research.  The results will provide insight and guidance into the future mental support for pouchees, potential pouchees and ileostomists.  Ten minutes of your time to help improve the prospects and quality of mental and emotional support for pouchees, potential pouchees and ileostomists in the future.  What’s not to like?  

Zeina’s project has been approved by the University Research Ethics Committee and all answers will be treated in complete confidence and anonymised.    

Please click below for more information and to take the survey.  

Click here

Zeina needs 60 of each group of people to complete her research, please help her to achieve her goal. 

Ziena Bushnaq

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Help doctoral student with research project

I am passing on the chance for you to get involved in some research being conducted by a doctoral student, Zeina Bushnaq, at the University of Roehampton. Zeina is asking people with ileostomies or pouches for their experiences and thoughts regarding mental health services.

The survey takes about 30 minutes to complete, the project has been approved by the University ethics committee and your data will be confidential and anonymised.

There is no payment, but I hope a few of you will have the time and motivation to complete the survey.  Zeina has prepared a flyer for more information and your participation is completely optional!

If you would like to take part in this study, for more information please click here

Thanks on behalf of Zeina and her colleagues. And don’t forget to mention where you heard of the research.

Thanks 

David Davies

Chaiman – Red Lion Group

Events

Information Day 2020 – book your place now!

Information Day 2020 – book your place now!

Hopefully, you have already saved the date for the Red Lion group Information Day and AGM, 2020, which will take place on Saturday 25th April at St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow. The Red Lion Group Information Day is one of the most informative events for patients, prospective patients, friends family and health care professionals with an interest in Pouch Surgery.

(The information day is open to ALL, not just patients of St. Mark’s Hospital)

You will have the opportunity to hear from some of the leading professionals in the field of Pouch Surgery practise and research and interact with fellow pouchees, prospective pouchees and health care professionals. You can see highlights and download presentations from last years (2019) Information day here.

Spaces are limited and you are recommended to register your intention to attend as soon as possible. Attendance fee (which includes refreshments and lunch) is £10.00 for non-members and £8.00 for members.


You can book your place using the link below.

You will be sent regular updates on the agenda as they become available and payment instructions in due course.

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Become a member of the Red Lion Group and attend the Information day at the discounted rate and other benefits.

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Confirmed Speakers

Dr. Yoram Inspector

We are delighted to confirm that Dr Yoram Inspector will be speaking again following his hugely popular presentation at the Information Day in 2018. He will be speaking on “The psychology of bowel (pouch) surgery”.

Dr Yoram Inspector M.D is a consultant Psychiatrist and a Psychotherapist and the Head of the Psychological Medicine Unit of St Mark’s Hospital which provides psychological treatment and support for people who cope with various gastrointestinal diseases and disorders.

Dr Yoram Inspector

Zarah Perry-Woodford
Many of you will be acquainted with Zarah Perry Woodford who will be speaking on the subject “Post-operative and long-term care of pouch patients“. Zarah has worked at St Mark’s hospital since 2002 and as the lead pouch nurse and practitioner since 2005 providing expert care to patients with ileo-anal pouches. She is also the author of the acclaimed book “Ileo-Anal Pouch Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis – A Guide for Patients“.

Zarah Perry-Woodford

Zoey Wright
We are also pleased to announce that we will have a Zoey Wright as a speaker. Zoey is a fitness model and media celebrity who will be celebrating one year to the day of her J-Pouch connection. She will be discussing her J-Pouch journey and training with a J-Pouch.

You can view Zoey’s website by clicking here or on the picture below.

Zoey Wright

Lucia Braz (Research Fellow at St. Mark’s Academic Institute)
Lucia Braz is a Registered Dietitian, trained at the University of Porto where she received a BSc Honours Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and became a member of the Federation of Nutrition Therapy Practitioners (FNTP) and British Dietetic Association (BDA) in the UK.
In 2017, she stepped out to undertake a PhD programme under supervision of Professor Ailsa Hart and Professor Gary Frost splitting her time between St Mark’s Hospital and Imperial College London. Her main research interest is the role of diet and Short-chain fatty acids in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Pouchitis.

Lucia Braz

FURTHER SPEAKERS TO BE CONFIRMED.

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When did you last suffer a fracture?

When did you last suffer a fracture?

Chances are it was some time ago. However, bowel problem sufferers can be more prone to a broken wrist, hip or ankle than others due to a condition known as osteoporosis. Red Lion member Sandy Hyams explains.

Sandy Hyams with her Welsh terrier, Lucky

Seven years ago, I had a nasty fall, breaking and dislocating my shoulder and sustaining nerve damage. I also started suffering from back pain which no amount of painkillers seemed to budge. 

To add to my woes, I discovered that I had wedge compression fractures of the spine when the bones become “squashed” due to their reduced strength. 

As you can see I’m not one to do things by halves! In fact, I lost count of the number of physiotherapists I visited in a vain attempt to relieve my constant pain. And it was not until a GP suggested I have a DEXA scan* that I discovered osteoporosis had been the culprit all along. 

It all started when I tried to reach up into the top of a bedroom wardrobe to lift down a blanket and fell in the process. When I fell over there was a loud crack as I felt my bones go. 

As part of the fall-out (excuse the pun!) I lost about three inches in height and suddenly – it all seemed to happen overnight – I found all my trousers were too long and I couldn’t get up to shelves that had been well within my reach before.


Brittle bones

So, what exactly is osteoporosis? It is a brittle bone condition that is usually discovered – as in my case – after a fall. An estimated one in two women and one in five men over 50 suffer such fractures which usually occur in the wrist or hip. 

Osteoporosis is often referred to as the “silent epidemic” and UC (ulcerative colitis) and Crohn’s sufferers are particularly prone to it. Among the danger signs for bowel disease sufferers are long-term use of steroids, low body weight, poor food absorption and long periods of immobility.

Other contributory factors are family genes, low calcium intake when young, heavy smoking, excessive drinking and lack of exercise. Low bone density also increases with age and one of the major risk factors for post-menopausal women is a declining level of oestrogen, the hormone which protects by balancing the removal of old and the renewal of new bone cells.


Key remedies

Reassuringly, osteoporosis can be treated and prevented. Three effective ways to help strengthen your bones and general skeleton are to revert to a calcium-rich diet, use weight-bearing exercises at home or at the gym and take Vitamin D supplements and get as much natural sunshine as possible! All these remedies help the body to absorb calcium.

For many years the only treatment available for women with osteoporosis was HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). Now, however, there is a range of non-hormonal drugs on the market, including the commonly prescribed bisphosphonates, which are mostly in tablet form and taken either daily, weekly or monthly. There are also intravenous and subcutaneous injections. Like most medicines, they all have possible side-effects. For instance, bisphosphonates can cause digestive irritation, a sore throat or difficulty in swallowing.

For me, one of the drawbacks of regular tablets was needing to take them first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and then remaining upright for 30 minutes afterwards. After speaking to a consultant, I decided to opt for Prolia (known as Denosumab), a twice-yearly jab given at my local GP surgery. A week before each injection I have a blood test to check my calcium and vitamin D levels.

If you think you might be at risk of osteoporosis, it would be a good idea to discuss with your GP whether you need a referral for a DEXA scan. It could certainly save you the pain and misery of broken bones in the future. Although osteoporosis does not make a fracture a certainty, the chances of suffering a broken bone are undoubtedly more likely.


* Most hospitals have this scanner which measures the bone density of the spine, hips and femurs and is a simple and pain-free procedure that uses very low doses of radiation. 

For more information on any aspect of osteoporosis, you can phone the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) helpline on 0808 800 0035 or email nurses@theros.org.uk. ROS also has an extensive range of free booklets, leaflets and factsheets about the condition.

Ed: If any RLG members have had similar experiences to Sandy’s, please write to our Letters page (cbrowne@brownemedia.co.uk).


This article first appeared in ISSUE 58: Christmas 2019 edition of ROAR!

If you would like to read other articles like this, why not become a member of the Red Lion Pouch Support Group? You will receive printed copy of ROAR! twice a year and have online access to archive ROAR! editions going back to 1994.

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March of the medical robots

March of the medical robots

Keyhole – or laparoscopic – surgery has been the buzz-phrase in cutting-edge surgery – if you’ll excuse the pun. Until recently. Today robots are giving surgeons a speedier, more efficient way to perform pouch operations, reports Christopher Browne.

Danilo Miskovic, St Mark’s Hospital’s lead robotic surgeon

If you want to liven up a dull dinner party or even a high-level business meeting – and who doesn’t! – mention robots. Once coveted by filmmakers and sci-fi lovers, the march of the robots is revolutionizing our approach to almost everything from domestic chores to high-end technology. 

And, hold on a minute, there have been rumors spreading through the hospital wards at St Mark’s about a group of surgeons and a …… robot! It’s just robotic gossip you might say, but you’d be wrong for it’s all true.

For almost two years now a team led by Professor Omar Faiz, St Mark’s Hospital’s clinical director, has been pioneering a research programme into robot technology, financially backed by a St Mark’s Hospital Foundation fundraising campaign.

The campaign funded the capital costs of the purchase of a Da Vinci Xi surgical robot – the most advanced of its kind in the world – in March 2018. Just a month after the robot’s delivery, a group of St Mark’s surgeons performed the hospital’s first robotic operation on a bowel cancer patient.

As the UK’s first hospital to use robot technology almost exclusively for bowel surgery, St Mark’s has carried out 180 plus robotic operations on mainly bowel-related cases. “We set ourselves the goal to perform 80 robotic colorectal operations in our first year and we easily exceeded this target. One of the cases was particularly unique: it involved two surgeons operating robotically on both a patient’s bowel and liver during the same operation,” said Jason Bacon, CEO of St Mark’s Hospital Foundation. 

Another “first” occurred In August this year when a team of four surgeons, including Mr Danilo Miskovic, St Mark’s lead robotic surgeon, carried out a 12-hour pelvic exenteration [an operation to remove multiple organs in the pelvis] on a young father with cancer which had been caused by complications with ulcerative colitis. 

Two months later, a team headed by Prof Faiz and Mr Miskovic, performed the first-ever robotic ileoanal pouch surgery on a St Mark’s patient.

“We believe the introduction of robotic surgery is an important milestone in reducing the risk of recurrent disease, and provides patients with a good short- and long-term quality of life. Similar to laparoscopic surgery, it is minimally invasive but it also provides the surgeon with magnified, high-definition 3d images to enable extremely precise surgery,” said Mr Bacon.

“While robotics has been established in other surgical specialties, namely urology and gynecology, its application has not until recently been widely researched and implemented for bowel disease surgery.”

Since the robotic surgical programme began, St Mark’s bowel cancer surgeons have been training to use the robotic surgical tool, while a fellowship in robotic surgery, funded by Intuitive Surgical, supplier of the Da Vinci Xi robot, will train more surgeons in the next three years.

Operation robot: a St Mark’s team carry out robot-assisted surgery

This article first appeared in ISSUE 58: Christmas 2019 edition of ROAR!

If you would like to read other articles like this, why not become a member of the Red Lion Pouch Support Group? You will receive printed copy of ROAR! twice a year and have online access to archive ROAR! editions going back to 1994.

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