[Preparation of patients with double-channel and marginal colostomies for restorative treatment].

The data on restorative treatment of 215 patients with double-channel and terminal colostomy are analysed to determine the efficacy of total lavage of the gastrointestinal tract in preparation of patients for operation. Postoperative complications occurred in 52.4 +/- 3.8% of patients prepared by a diet, purgatives, and enemas and in 34 +/- 6.9% in those prepared by the method of total lavage of the gastrointestinal tract (p = 0.021). Neither suppuration of wounds nor incompetence of the restorative anastomosis occurred after lavage.