During my surgeries I would watch youtubers documenting their journeys and I remember watching one guy after his jpouch surgery with a loop ileostomy and he had a rod protruding under his loop of intestine holding it above his skin for two weeks and putting a bag around that????.I was shocked and I asked my surgeon about it and he said no,no metal rods.so it shows advances are being made.
And the difference between stapling and stitching.