Primary anastomosis during urgent colorectal resections – is there a place?

Introduction: Urgent colorectal resection frequently equals with Hartmann's procedure. The stoma formation poses the patient to further surgery and thus to further possible complication. We examined if the primary anastomosis has place in acute colorectal surgery. Patients: Between January 2009 and March 2010 we performed 30 urgent colorectal resections. We excluded those patient where resection was not possible or necessary and we performed stoma formation only. We performed 20 Hartmann's procedure and 10 resection with primary anastomosis. In the Hartmann's group there were 12 female and 8 male patients, the m…