In this episode Alyzee Sibtain discusses the diagnosis and management of patients with bowel obstruction. After listening to this episode, learners will be able to:

• recoginse the signs and symptoms of small bowel obstruction and large bowel obstruction and relate them to the underlying pathophysiology
• describe how to investigate the patient with bowel obstruction
• describe typical X-ray changes in the patient with bowel obstruction
• outline the initial management of the the patient with bowel obstruction
• list indications for surgery in the patient with bowel obstruction

Running time 17:35