Ostomy Pouching Trainer, Light Skin

The light skin tone Ostomy Pouching Trainer™ Model helps prepare patients, their families, and healthcare professionals for this life-changing event, improving their initial exposure and their future quality of life. The Ostomy Pouching Trainer™ will facilitate the practice of proper pouching techniques to maintain healthy skin while developing good hand-eye coordination. Pre-operative teaching allows patients and their families to begin learning about ostomies prior to surgery when they are less distracted—reducing anxiety. Also available in .

1. Urostomy with Stents
2. Loop Stoma (you provide the bridge)
3. End Stoma
4. Flush Stoma

1. Contact dermatitis
2. Standard healthy skin
3. Flush placement with folds and mucocutaneous separation
4. Candidiasis

Patients and healthcare staff can grasp, in a realistic, life-sized model, what they may have had difficulty understanding from pictures, especially in those cases where language or comprehension may be an obstacle. Seeing the stomas and visualizing the location and function of the various types, including the discharge from them, is essential to learning. Proper teaching helps increase patients’ understanding of their condition and the adjustments which may be necessary for achieving a satisfactory standard of life with their new stoma.