Gastrostomy - Videolaparoscopy

Video demonstrated a laparoscopic gastrostomy, performed on a patient with indication of radiotherapy of the neck for a larynx tumor.It was used 3 5mm trocar techinique + 10mm trocar for the opitics. A foley catheter number 24 was placed inside the stomach and the gastrostomy was "sealed" with prolene 3.0 and fixed to the gastric wall with a running suture of the same wire. Next day of the procedure the patient recived Glucose 5% by the gastrostomy, and on the second post operative day enteral nutrition was introduced. No complications were observed on the late post operative period.