Why the study?
Mechanical bowel obstruction frequently requires emergency laparotomy and carries serious morbidity, mortality, and financial burden, motivating perioperative rehabilitation protocols to improve recovery and outcomes.
The EUPEMEN protocol provides multidisciplinary recommendations for perioperative care in patients with mechanical bowel obstruction to improve clinical outcomes.
Supports EUPEMEN adoption in mechanical bowel obstruction; extends multidisciplinary perioperative guidelines to this common surgical emergency.
Mechanical bowel obstruction is a common symptom for admission to emergency services, diagnosed annually in more than 300,000 patients in the States, from whom 51% will undergo emergency laparotomy. This condition is associated with serious morbidity and mortality, but it also causes a high financial burden due to long hospital stay. The EUPEMEN project aims to incorporate the expertise and clinical experience of national clinical specialists into development of perioperative rehabilitation protocols. Providing special recommendations for all aspects of patient perioperative care and the participation of diverse specialists, the EUPEMEN protocol for bowel obstruction, as presented in the current paper, aims to provide faster postoperative recovery and reduce length of hospital stay, postoperative morbidity and mortality rate.
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Ioannidis et al. (2023) studied Mechanical bowel obstruction. EUPEMEN protocol was evaluated on Postoperative recovery, length of hospital stay, postoperative morbidity and mortality rate. The EUPEMEN protocol provides multidisciplinary recommendations for perioperative care in mechanical bowel obstruction to accelerate recovery and reduce morbidity, mortality, and hospital stay.
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