Postoperative ileus / / by Conor P. Delaney
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| Autore: |
Delaney C. P (Conor Patrick)
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| Titolo: |
Postoperative ileus / / by Conor P. Delaney
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (41 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 617.55401 |
| Soggetto topico: | Intestines - Surgery |
| Postoperative care | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Table of contents; Introduction; Causes and pathophysiology; Diagnosis and clinical features; Prevention; Current pharmacological options for treatment and management; Nonpharmacological therapies; Emerging pharmacotherapies; Conclusions |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ileus is a general functional inhibition of the propulsive bowel activity in the absence of mechanical bowel obstruction. Postoperative ileus (POI) is a more specific condition which is a transient cessation of coordinated bowel motility after surgery, preventing effective transit of intestinal content. Depending on the type of surgery, and especially when the bowels are involved in the surgery, the incidence can be high, affecting 4 to 20 percent of abdominal surgery patients. Typically, in the small intestine, it can last up to 24 hours; in the stomach, between 24 and 48 hours; and in the co |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Postoperative ileus |
| ISBN: | 1-282-54401-2 |
| 9786612544019 | |
| 0-19-974948-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910829102503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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