With a rapidly growing elderly population, there is an increasing prevalence of patients presenting with emergency surgical conditions such as intestinal obstruction. While the majority of elderly patients evaluated for obstruction do not require operation, it is an entity that requires management by a surgical service. It is often the patient’s comorbidities and decrease in physiologic reserve that lead to poor outcomes in this population and not the purely technical, surgical aspects of the disease.
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Stephen, A. H., Adams, C. A., & Cioffi, W. G. (2014). Intestinal obstruction. In Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care (pp. 139–144). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8501-8_14
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