Summary: This study aims to evaluate the effect of hot compress application to the intestines during abdominal surgery on postoperative nausea-vomiting and bowel function. Volunteers will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. Initially, 30 patients will be included in each group, and the study will be completed based on the effect size determined by power analysis. Hypotheses: H0: Co...

Summary: High-output enterocutaneous fistulas (HOF) and double enterostomies are severe complications of abdominal surgery or trauma. Double enterostomies are typically created after small bowel resection in fragile patients who cannot tolerate intestinal reconnection. Reconnection is generally performed 3-6 months later, once patients have regained sufficient healing capacity. In contrast, HOFs occur when...

Summary: Crohn's disease (CD), a chronic inflammatory process in intestinal segments leads to tissue damage. More than two thirds of CD patients need intestinal resection. Symptomatic clinical recurrence occurs in 60% by 10 years. The principal factors affecting postoperative recurrence are active smoking, penetrating disease, perianal lesions history, prior intestinal resection, small bowel resection exte...

Summary: The goal of this multicentre mixed -methods study is to understand the patient and clinician perspective on the ideal timing of an operation for Crohn's disease of the terminal ileum (last part of the small bowel). The main questions it aims to answer are: * What factors influence patients' and clinicians' preferences with regards to the timing of the first bowel resection for isolated Crohn's dis...