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Five days ago you removed this patient’s perforated appendix (chapter 22); you gave him antibiotics for 2–3 days (chapter 32) and by today you expected him to eat (chapter 31) and go home. Instead, your patient lies in bed with a long face and a distended abdomen, vomiting bile from time to time. What is the problem?
The postoperative fart is the best music to the surgeon’s ears ...
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Schein, M. (2000). Postoperative Ileus Versus Intestinal Obstruction. In: Schein’s Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88133-6_34
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