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  #1

What is the DX here?
What do you see in the film?
Answer and explain please.


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  #2

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distended bowels, need decompression

  #3

Is this because of adhesions from her previous surgery causing bowel obstruction?


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  #4

YES
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  #5

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bec. of intestinal obstruction, and the goal here is to decompress the bowel to releif

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  #6

We can only see the distended bowels here, not the actual adhesions, correct?


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  #7

Yes nod
xray shows small bowel obstruction,
with the ladder like pattern of the dilated loops of small bowel

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  #8

Intesinal obstruction needs nasogastric tube







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