In this episode Alyzee Sibtain discusses the diagnosis and management of patients with bowel obstruction. After listening to this episode, learners will be able to:
- recoginse the signs and symptoms of small bowel obstruction and large bowel obstruction and relate them to the underlying pathophysiology
- describe how to investigate the patient with bowel obstruction
- describe typical X-ray changes in the patient with bowel obstruction
- outline the initial management of the the patient with bowel obstruction
- list indications for surgery in the patient with bowel obstruction