Pediatric Rectosigmoidoscopy

Rectosigmoidoscopy is the procedure of visual examination of the last 15-20 cm of large intestine with a device called rectosigmoidoscope. It is performed on children undergeneral anesthesia. Rectosigmoidoscope is made of a metal tube with an inner lens system that lightens inside. The procedure is performed in order to examine the last part of large intestine, to investigate the cause of bleeding, to collect sample and to remove polyp.

Considerations before rectasigmoidoscopy

• Please contact Pediatric Surgery Outpatient clinic on the control date stated in the appointment.

• Please bring your official referral documents and X-ray results with you, if any.

• Please have a control examination done and if any additional tests requested, please take these requests to the relevant departments.

• Please show the test results to your physician in the outpatient clinic.

• Please perform the intestine cleansing the as it is recommended while the appointment is given.

• Please be sure to keep your child fasting starting from the identified hour on the night before the surgery. Otherwise, please inform your physician in charge.

• If there is any medication that your child is taking regularly, please make sure to use the medication in compliance with the instructions of the physician, who has given the appointment before the examination. .

• Please bring all X-rays of the child with you.

• If your child has any additional prescriptions for other illnesses that were prescribed to be taken before and/or after receiving anesthesia, please bring these medications with you.

• Please keep the referral documents with you.

• Please keep the referral documents with you.

• If there are any changes in the condition of your child (such as fever, runny nose, cough and vomiting) since the last check up, please inform your physician of these instances.

• On the operation day, following the colon cleansing control, if required, additional cleansing procedures are performed, then you will go to the outpatient surgery center.

• Please take the operating room request document, prepared by the secretariat of Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic.

Considerations at Outpatient Surgery Center

• Please submit the operating room request document, the patient file, all of the X-rays and medications, if any, to the secretariat of Outpatient Surgery Center.

• Please remain in the waiting lounge until your child’s name is called.

• Please enter with your child, when called.

• Please accompany your child while she/he gets undressed and puts on special clothing.

• Please be sure that there are no accessories such as watches, necklaces, rings, earrings, etc. on your child.

• Please return to the waiting lounge, while the child is taken inside with a stretcher.

• For the surgery information please keep up with the screen which is situated in the waiting lounge.

• After being kept in the reanimation unit for a while after the surgery the child will be taken to a different hall where his/her relative can be with him/her.

• When the child is entirely awake, you will be allowed to leave the hospital.

• Necessary information will be given about your child’s process results, diet and control procedure after the surgery..

• If tissue sample is collected during the operation, please remember to submit it to Pediatric Pathology unit.

• Please contact Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic when the pathology report is issued.