Active clinical trials for "Intestinal Obstruction"

A cohort study of the cost for patients operated for adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO) during a five-year period

The study aims at investigating if icodextrin 4% instilled in abdominal cavity during surgery can reduce the risk of surgery and hospitalisation for small bowel obstruction in patients with colorectal cancer. Follow-up data is collected from the Swedish national colorectal cancer registry.Patients are followed for 5 years postoperatively.The study is a randomized Swedish multicenter study and planned to include 1,800 patients. A safety control is planned after 300 included patients.

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing small bowel obstruction in emergency department patients, as compared to the criterion standards of computed tomography, operative reports, or discharge diagnosis. The secondary purposes of the study include evaluation of the effect of ultrasound for small bowel obstruction on the patient length of stay in the emergency department and the diagnostic utility of specific ultrasound findings in the diagnosis of small bowel obstruction. The study will also examine the inter-rater agreement between point-of-care sonographers' interpretation and blinded reviewers' interpretation of the ultrasound images.

This study is to evaluate the efficacy of GUARDIX-SGⓇ for patients with gastrectomy in Korea and the investigators hypothesized applying of adhesive preventing agent would reduce incidence of adhesive obstruction after gastrectomy.

A case of a patient with cystic fibrosis with bowel obstruction due to a proximal intestinal obstruction syndrome (PIOS) is presented.This syndrome can be diagnosed with the DIOS definition, with the only distinction of a more proximal location in the gastrointestinal tract, such as the stomach, the duodenum, or the jejunum.

This study evaluates the use of tape to secure nasogastric tubes compared to securement with a nasal bridle device.

The main goal of this study is to describe the trends in the incidence rate of internal hernia presentation after different modifications of the mesenteric closure technique after primary laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery from 1997-2009.

RATIONALE: Naloxone may be effective in treating constipation that may be caused by opioid pain medications such as morphine. PURPOSE: Phase III trial to determine the effectiveness of naloxone in relieving constiption in patients who are receiving opioids for chronic pain.

Background and Rationale : Perioperative fluid management is a challenging issue in surgical care especially in a procedure specific model. Recently hypertonic saline (HS) has the advantage of using the patient's own total body water by drawing interstitial space. Although it still controversial whether HS is associated with benefits in specific patient populations, particularly with respect to site of lesion and illness severity; these data provide insight into therapeutic modalities to curtail ileus formation. Objectives : Measurement of total volume of fluid infused, the need of inotropic or vasopressor to maintain adequate hemodynamic parameters with assessment of electrolyte disturbances and S.lactate The incidence rate of surgical complications; infection and anastomotic dehiscence Study population & Sample size : There were no previous trials comparing the two studied groups of the current trial. We expected a small standardized effect size of 0.2. Based on this effect size, 25 subjects will be needed to elicit the difference between the two groups at an alpha level of 0.05 and power of 0.9 (Whitehead et al; 2016).

This is a single-center retrospective cohort study on cancer patients who underwent emergency ostomy. Our objective was to compare the incidence of surgical complications as well as the length of hospital stay among three different techniques for ostomy confection (laparotomy, the conventional local approach, described as trephination, and laparoscopy).