Early problems with a new stoma – how to avoid, how to treat?
Monday, 30 November 2026, 2:00 pm
Laurent Chabal
Laurent Chabal explains how to prevent early stoma complications through careful planning, marking, surgical technique and patient education. It focuses on recognising and managing common problems, including peristomal skin damage, leakage, retraction and impaired stoma function, with timely intervention. He emphasises collaboration between surgeons and stoma-care nurses, offering practical strategies to improve recovery, support self-management and protect quality of life.
About Laurent Chabal
Laurent O. Chabal is a specialised ostomy and wound-care expert, educator, and guideline developer with more than two decades of experience in stoma therapy and peristomal skin management. He served as expert panel member for the WCET® International Ostomy Guideline, 3rd edition, and its 2021 practice-implications paper, which underpin current recommendations on preoperative siting, early complication prevention, and structured patient education. Currently Immediate Past President of the World Council of Enterostomal Therapists, Specialised Stoma, Wound and Continence Nurse at EHC-Morges’s Hospital, and a lecturer at HES-SO Geneva, he focuses on translating evidence-based ostomy care into everyday surgical and nursing practice.
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