Postoperative ileus: Recent developments in pathophysiology and management.

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Summary

Although POI is often inevitable, methods to reduce its duration and facilitate recovery of postoperative gastrointestinal function are evolving rapidly and utilisation of standardised diagnostic classification systems will help improve applicability of future studies.

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review
Published
2015-06-01
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Keywords

Medicine, Pathophysiology, Ileus, Intensive care medicine, General surgery

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