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Intestinal Obstruction

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The elderly comprise the fastest-growing segment of the United States’ population; thus, surgeons will be faced with increasing numbers of older patients particularly those with intestinal obstruction. These patients will be more challenging to care for since they will have more complex medical comorbidities than younger patients. This challenge will be compounded by the fact that many of these patients will have undergone previous abdominal surgery and a small but growing minority might have undergone multiple abdominal procedures. Since intestinal obstruction is one of the more common surgical diseases in the elderly, it is imperative that surgeons sharpen their understanding of the evaluation and treatment of patients with bowel obstruction.

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Stephen, A.H., Adams, C.A., Cioffi, W.G. (2017). Intestinal Obstruction. In: Luchette, F., Yelon, J. (eds) Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48687-1_16

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