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A 5 page paper which examines the various types of bowel obstructions, discusses causes, symptoms, and treatment options. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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approaches to treatment. Bowel or intestinal obstruction is defined as some type of blockage of either the small or large bowel for a variety of reasons (Hughes, 2005).
There is a commonality in terms of type in that each obstruction "is caused by narrowing of the intestinal lumen or failure of gut motility and can be either simple
(where there is no interference In the blood supply), or strangulating (where the blood supply is interrupted leading to necrosis of the gut tissue)" (Hughes, 2005, p. 56). The
complicated physiology involved can generate anything from a localized stomach pain to severe vomiting, dehydration, or peritonitis or bowel perforation (Hughes, 2005). The types of bowel obstruction included mechanical ileus,
paralytic (neurogenic) ileus), vascular, and pseudo (Klee, 2004). The difference between mechanical and paralytic ileus is that the former describes a specific blockage while the other refers to an
entire gut paralysis (Klee, 2004). Paralytic ileus may begin innocuously with a slowed functioning of the bowel or intestine, with occasional periods of total stoppage (Klee, 2004). There
are instances in which the paralysis can become irreversible and thereby terminal (Klee, 2004). Vascular ileus refers to a small bowel obstruction that affects the blood vessels and a
pseudo obstruction is a byproduct of cancer or another debilitating physical illness. Causes of bowel obstruction are many, and usually involve the level of the obstruction (Hughes, 2005). In
her article for Nursing Standard entitled "Caring for the Patient with an Intestinal Obstruction," she writes, "In the small bowel, the most common causes of obstruction are: Adhesions caused
by previous surgical intervention... hernias... Crohns disease; malignancies; Meckels diverticulum where there has been an incomplete closure of the embryo duct which leaves a protruding sac from the wall of
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