Evidence-based, cost-effective management of small bowel obstruction: An algorithm of the Journal of Trauma and Acute

David H Livingston1, Ali Salim, Walter L Biffl

  • 1From 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.

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