A review of emergency colonic surgery
DeFriend, D.; Hill, J.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine 56(7): 326-329
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0007-1064 PMID: 8899220 Document Number: 465693
Recently, management priorities of colonic emergencies have shifted away from emergency operative management by junior surgeons to more thorough preoperative assessment and resuscitation followed by semi-elective surgery performed by experienced surgeons. The move towards more definitive primary surgical management is discussed, together with the various surgical controversies which remain undecided.