For relatively minor injuries, patients with simple repair will generally not have an impact on their quality of life. For patients with greater trauma, extensive surgery, GI reconstruction and fistulae,…
Surgery is the most important treatment for colonic injury, and early surgery can prevent serious abdominal infection and sepsis; if there is clinical suspicion of colonic injury, laparotomy can be…
Not considered high. In the first and second world wars, most of the colonic injuries were caused by firearms, with mortality rates at 67.5% and 35%. Nowadays, due to improvements…
Bowel injury requires a standing abdominal radiograph, abdominal CT, routine blood work, calcitoninogen, C-reactive protein and, if necessary, laparotomy, and even more attention to the patient’s vital signs. Patients with…
Due to the improvement of the overall medical standard nowadays, such as the delicacy of surgery, postoperative anti-infection treatment and nutritional support, there is no difference in the overall mortality…
Colonic injuries often present as persistent abdominal pain following abdominal trauma, or abdominal pain following medical manipulation, often accompanied by an elevated temperature, and may present with abdominal muscle tension…