EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE BOWEL OBSTRUCTIONS
Authors: Owen H. Wangensteen
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1939)

Article1 December 1939EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE BOWEL OBSTRUCTIONSOWEN H. WANGENSTEEN, M.D.OWEN H. WANGENSTEEN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-13-6-987 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt is not so long ago that the depth of a lesion beneath the body surface determined whether the malady was surgical or medical in character. Externists or surgeons concerned themselves with the practical affairs of setting bones and the treatment of ulcers, wounds and ailments of the body surface. The problems of the less pragmatic but more erudite internists centered about internal disorders. The surgeon chanced an occasional excursion beyond his frontiers, but save for the management of vesical calculi, rarely did these meanderings redound to his honor or that of his guild. Anesthesia, antisepsis and the discovery of...References1. ABBOTTJOHNSTON WOCG: Intubation studies of the human small intestine, Surg., Gynec. and Obst., 1938, lxvi, 691-697. Google Scholar2. BELLISWANGENSTEEN CJOH: Unpublished data. Google Scholar3. CURSCHMANN L: Der Ileus und seine Behandlung, Verhandl. d. deutsch. Kong. f. inn. Med., 1889, Wiesbaden. Google Scholar4. FINEBANKSSEARSHERMANSON JBMJBL: The treatment of gaseous distention of the intestine by the inhalation of 95 per cent oxygen, Ann. Surg., 1936, ciii, 375. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. FITZ RH: The diagnosis and medical treatment of acute intestinal obstruction, Trans. Congr. Am. Phys. and Surg., 1888, i, 1-42. Google Scholar6. MILLER CJ: A study of 343 surgical cases of intestinal obstruction, Ann. Surg., 1929, lxxxix, 91. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. SENN N: The surgical treatment of intestinal obstruction, Trans. Am. Coll. Surg., 1888, i, 43. Google Scholar8. TREVES F: Intestinal obstruction; its varieties with their pathology, diagnosis and treatment, 1899, William Wood & Co., New York. Google Scholar9. WANGENSTEEN OH: The early diagnosis of acute intestinal obstruction with comments on pathology and treatment, with report of successful decompression of 3 cases of mechanical bowel obstruction by nasal catheter suction siphonage, Trans. West. Surg. Assoc., 1931; also, West. Jr. Surg., 1932, xl, 1-17. Google Scholar10. WANGENSTEEN OH: The therapeutic problem in bowel obstructions, 1937, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois. Google Scholar11. WANGENSTEENREASMITHSCHWYZER OHCEBAHC: Experiences with employment of suction in the treatment of acute intestinal obstruction: a reiteration of the indications, contraindications and limitations of the method, Surg., Gynec. and Obst., 1939, lxviii, 5. Google Scholar12. WANGENSTEENREA OHCE: The distention factor in simple intestinal obstruction, Surgery, 1939, v, 327-339. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Minneapolis, Minnesota*Read at the New Orleans meeting of the American College of Physicians March 30, 1939.From the Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Supported by a grant from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, and also by a grant for technical assistance by the Federal Public Works Administration, Project No. 665-71-3-69, Sub-project No. 258. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byIntubation studies in intestinal allergy 1 December 1939Volume 13, Issue 6Page: 987-1000KeywordsAnesthesiaBoneGraduate medical educationLesionsSurgeonsSurgeryUlcers ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1939 PDF downloadLoading ...