Ostomy

An ostomy is a hidden disability until our clothes are off; therefore, it may help to find a comfortable way to tell potential partners before sexual relations begin. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

But then it started,I was unable to find work due to my ostomy bag ❋ Unknown (2009)

Funny thing,,,Taking off my half full ostomy bag and dropping it on the workers desk and asking if that looked like no medical need while it splattered it contents all over her paper work…. got my benifits back within the hour, ❋ Unknown (2009)

Convatec, based in Skillman, N.J., is a medical-technology business that manufactures wound-care and ostomy products. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anyway, Tracy wants me to speak at an ostomy conference of some sort at Shrewsbury in September. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)

Smokers are two to five time more likely than non-smokers to end up wearing an ostomy bag to hold their pee. ❋ Miss Snark (2005)

She has an ostomy pouch and feeding tube attached to her for nutrition as she slowly gets used to eating again. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Liberator's revenue primarily comes from supplying products to meet the rapidly growing requirements of general medical supplies, personal mobility aids, diabetes, urological, ostomy and mastectomy patients. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Company also sells certain ostomy and wound and scar care products and other brands of urological products into the European marketplace.

Coloplast A/S, the world's largest maker of ostomy and urology products, rose 7.4 percent to 780.50 kroner in Copenhagen after reporting third-quarter net income of 485 million kroner $94 million, beating the average analyst estimate of 433 million kroner. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The other two projects are also educational projects - one about ostomy care and the other about spinal cord injuries (see fact box). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Healthcare professionals who specialize in wound, ostomy and/or continence care will have the opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking conference that combines the expertise of two premier wound, ostomy and continence associations, The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses ❋ Editors (2010)

Building Bridges: Transcultural Ostomy Nursing, a session dedicated to uniting like-minded WOC-Stoma Care Nurses from many countries and cultures to explore the impact of culture on the ostomy patient. ❋ Editors (2010)

Educational offerings include sessions on the yet-to-be-released WOCN Ostomy and Pressure Ulcer Guidelines, transcultural nursing, evaluation of fecal incontinence, CMS updates and many other sessions of interest to nurses practicing in the fields of wound, ostomy and continence throughout the world. ❋ Editors (2010)

All projects are designed to increase doctors and nurses 'knowledge of treatment and care of taboo and neglected diseases within wound, ostomy and continence care. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We aim to improve patient's quality of life by providing professional stoma care management and thereby reduce the chances of ostomy complications. ❋ Unknown (2010)