Thirty-day mortality in patients undergoing laparotomy for small bowel obstruction.

CONCLUSION: In patients who require an emergency laparotomy with adhesiolysis or resection for SBO, a delay to surgery of more than 72 h is associated with a higher 30-day postoperative mortality rate. PMID: 29603126 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29603126?dopt=Abstract

Source: The British Journal of Surgery - March 30, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Peacock O, Bassett MG, Kuryba A, Walker K, Davies E, Anderson I, Vohra RS, National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) Project Team Tags: Br J Surg Source Type: research