ALLMedicine™ Ileus Center

Jul 28th, 2021 - "Rice Cake" Small Bowel Ileus.|2021|Okano A,|

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Ileus is a common and distressing condition characterised by gut dysfunction after surgery. While a number of interventions have aimed to curtail its impact on patients and healthcare systems, ileus is still an unmet challenge. Electrical stimulat...

Jul 20th, 2021 - With many different operative techniques in use to reduce the incidence of incisional hernias (IH) following a midline laparotomy, there is no consensus among the clinicians on the efficacy and safety of any particular repair technique. This meta-...

Jul 16th, 2021 - Retrospective review of patients ages 10-18 who underwent posterior fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) at a single institution from 2014 to 2019. The aim was to evaluate a standardized Care Path to determine its effects on perioperat...

Jul 13th, 2021 - To evaluate the safety and feasibility of single-incision laparoscopic surgery+1 (SILS+1) radical resection of sigmoid and upper rectal cancer. The clinical data of 30 consecutive patients with sigmoid and upper rectal cancer who underwent SILS+1 ...

May 29th, 2019 - Ileus is a common challenge in adult surgical patients with estimated incidence to be 17% to 80%. The main mechanisms of the postoperative ileus pathophysiology are fluid overload, exogenous opioids, neurohormonal dysfunction, gastrointestinal str...

Jan 1st, 2014 - Enhanced recovery after surgery provides patients with optimal means to counteract or minimize the deleterious effects of surgery. This concept can be adapted to suit a specific surgical procedure (i.e., colorectal surgery) and comes in the form o...

Mar 10th, 2020 - We are conducting a randomized controlled trial the use of rib raising for post-operative ileus. Rib raising is an osteopathic manipulative technique (OMT). We will recruit all patients undergoing major abdominal surgery and once they have been en...

Feb 5th, 2020 - In colorectal surgery, laparoscopy and enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs have significantly improved the short-term outcomes (1). Although the laparoscopic approach reduces pain and recovery time, post-operative pain, nausea and vomi...

Jan 30th, 2020 - Postoperative pain associated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can pose significant challenges in the recovery process of the patients undergoing this procedure. Traditionally, opioids have played a significant role in treating postoperative pai...

Dec 12th, 2019 - TOGA involves the provision of a 6- hour treatment with 100% oxygen via non breather mask to hospitalized patients with ileus, small bowel obstruction and/or colonic pseudo-obstruction will be a useful supplemental therapy, decreasing the diameter...

Nov 27th, 2019 - A double-blind, randomized, parallel-group study designed to evaluate the safety and activity of IV MNTX in the treatment of Post-Operative Ileus (POI) in patients who underwent segmental colectomies via laparotomy.

Jan 13th, 2020 - Ileus is the most common early complication of RC. The most common late complications of RC are small-bowel obstruction and ureteroenteric anastomotic stricture. Other common complications following RC include the following: Wound infection Sepsis...

Mar 25th, 2019 - The guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) in surgical patients were released on February 28, 2019, by the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES).[1] Diagnosis Diagnosis of CDI should be ...

Mar 25th, 2019 - The guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) in surgical patients were released on February 28, 2019, by the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES).[1] Diagnosis Diagnosis of CDI should be ...

Nov 9th, 2018 - Image courtesy of Radiopedia "Borborygmus" or "borborygmi" is the Greek term to identify what we commonly call "bowel sounds." The word probably originated because saying it out loud resembles the sound of the gurgling bowel. Although these sounds...

Sep 13th, 2018 - Purpose: The NMVAHCS is striving for innovation, with the implementation of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol: best practice. Background: Literature supports the reduction of intraoperative instability, post-operative ileus and co.