A Various Method of Surgical Management in Patients with Acute Intestinal Obstruction: A Case Series

Background: Bowel obstruction remains one of the most prevalent intra-abdominal issues encountered by general surgeons in their exercise, whether triggered by hernia, neoplasm, adhesions or linked to biochemical disturbances, tiny or big intestinal obstruction remains a significant source of morbidity and death. Identifying and analyzing the different operating procedures in patients with severe intestinal obstruction.

Objective: To analyse the various method of surgical managements in a patients with acute intestinal obstruction.

Materials and Method: In all patients registered with intestinal obstruction regardless of age group, the research was performed in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai over a span of 19 months.

Results: There were 50 instances of severe intestinal obstruction in the entire age range in the research group. The commonest surgical procedure done for intestinal obstruction is release of adhesion with hernioplasty done in 32% of the cases, release of adhesions only done in 30% cases & resection anastamosis in 18% of cases.

Conclusion: Success in managing severe intestinal obstruction is mainly dependent on early diagnosis, skillful leadership and therapy of the obstruction’s pathological consequences as much as the cause itself. There is no statistically significant difference between cure rates and death rates due to various surgeries, probably because our sample size was too small. P value 2.0 (>0.05).