Acute intestinal obstruction

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What are the characteristics of acute intestinal obstruction?

  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Failure to expel flatus
  • Prior abdominal surgery or presence of hernia
  • Peristaltic pain (colicky pain—every 10 minutes for jejunal obstruction and every 30 minutes for ileal obstruction)

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