Nursing Question: Abdomen Distension

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TODAY’S TEST QUESTION:


CORRECT ANSWER:
B) A Distal (further down)

MORE INFO:

  • SBO is MORE LIKELY to cause abdomen distention.

  • They both can be accompanied with distention.

  • However more likely in distal. “Distal SBO  almost always cause significant distention”. (Ref Hospital medicine McKean, Bennett, Halasyamani).

  • This is important because it’s very likely you will be charting on this and many nurses are confused as to why not every SBO case comes with distention

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