ArticleEmergency medicine international2020
Blunt Isolated Small Bowel Perforation Intervention: Does a Delay in Management Matter?
Article in Emergency medicine international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Anatomical patterns and factors associated with traumatic bowel injury among patients undergoing emergency surgery for abdominal trauma at two teaching hospitals in Uganda.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- An Unusual Presentation of a Small Bowel Injury in an Adult Following a Fall From Height.Cureus · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of syndecan-1 as an adjunct diagnostic marker in small bowel injury: a report of two cases.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- Impact of Pelvic Fracture on Patients with Blunt Bowel Mesenteric Injury: Is Immediate Laparotomy Warranted?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Uncommon presentation: isolated small bowel perforation after blunt abdominal trauma in a pediatric patient; a case report.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- The Role of Diagnostic Laparoscopy in the Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma Patients: A Trauma Quality Improvement Program Study.World journal of surgery · 2023Article
- WSES guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeBlunt small bowel injury is rare, and its timely diagnosis may be difficult. The effects of a delayed intervention on prognosis are unclear. We aimed to determine whether the time to surgical intervention affects outcomes in patients with blunt small bowel perforation.
methodsThe study was performed between March 2010 and December 2018 in adults (age >18 years) who initially underwent computed tomography and small bowel surgery only and survived more than one day postoperatively. They were categorized into three groups based on injury-to-surgery time intervals: ≤8, 8-24, and >24 h; similarly, they were also categorized into two groups of ≤24 and >24 h.
resultsBowel resection, length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit (ICU) LOS, morbidity, and mortality were analyzed as outcomes in 52 patients. The number of patients in the three groups (≤8, 8-24, and >24 h) based on the time-to-surgery was 33, 13, and 6, respectively. On comparing the three groups, there were no significant differences in LOS (24 [18-35], 21 [10-40], and 28 [20-98] days, respectively;
conclusionsDelay in surgical intervention following blunt abdominal trauma may not affect the outcomes of patients with small bowel injuries, such as LOS, ICU LOS, morbidity, and mortality, except bowel resection.
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