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ArticleThe journal of trauma and acute care surgery2025

Evidence-based, cost-effective management of small bowel obstruction: An algorithm of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery emergency general surgery algorithms work group.

David H Livingston, Ali Salim, Walter L Biffl, Todd W Costantini, Jose J Diaz, Kenji Inaba, Lena M Napolitano, Robert Winchell, Raul Coimbra

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Article in The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

David H LivingstonFrom the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (K.I.), Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Division of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery (W.L.B.), Scripps Clinic/Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, California; Division of Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (T.W.C.), University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Surgery (J.J.D.), University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida; Department of Surgery (D.H.L.), University of Colorado-Anschutz, Aurora, Colorado; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (L.M.N.), University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Surgery (A.S.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Trauma, Burns, Acute and Critical Care, Department of Surgery (R.W.), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; and Division of Acute Care Surgery (R.C.), Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center, Riverside University Health System, Riverside, California.ORCID 0000-0003-0427-0393
Ali Salim
Walter L Biffl
Todd W Costantini
Jose J Diaz
Kenji Inaba
Lena M Napolitano
Robert Winchell
Raul Coimbra

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PMID40842046
PMCPMC12893134

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