Small Bowel Obstruction: Facilitating Diagnosis and Optimizing Resuscitation and Management

Authors

Robin Naples, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Kendrick Law, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Quinton Campbell, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Ryan Bateman, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

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Description

Introduction

As a common surgical emergency that presents in our Emergency Department, Small Bowel Obstruction (SBO) is a disease process where appropriate treatment relies on early detection, fluid resuscitation, and gastric decompression. Despite SBO representing a common emergency, many patients experience inadequate or delayed management as compared to established guidelines, potentially leading to suboptimal treatment and resolution of SBO. As order sets and alerts within Epic are in place for other disease processes whose management relies on timely diagnosis and fluid resuscitation (e.g. sepsis), objectives for our quality improvement plan involve incorporating elements of alerts and order sets within our EMR to optimize detection, management and resuscitation of patients with small bowel obstruction presenting to the Emergency Department.

Publication Date

6-6-2019

City

Philadelphia

Keywords

quality improvement, small bowel obstruction, emergency department, patient care

Disciplines

Emergency Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences

Comments

Presented at the 2019 House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference

Recommended Citation

Naples, MD, Robin; Law, MD, Kendrick; Campbell, MD, Quinton; and Bateman, MD, Ryan, "Small Bowel Obstruction: Facilitating Diagnosis and Optimizing Resuscitation and Management" (2019). House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference (2016-2019). Poster 119.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/119