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Bowel management in the intensive care unit.

Dorman BP, Hill C, McGrath M, Mansour A, Dobson D, Pearse T, Singleton J, Al-Omoush A, Barry M, Colongon AR, Perez M, Fitzgerald D, Zabala M

Intensive Care Unit, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, Hampstead, London NW3 2QG, UK. brian.dorman@royalfree.nhs.uk

The area of bowel care in the intensive care unit (ICU) is often overlooked in the holistic care of the critically ill individual. With the primary concern of optimising patients to preserve life the problem of bowel care has been given less priority. The guidelines included within this service improvement paper offer a simple approach to bowel care management with the use of an algorithm and visual display score to be used in conjunction with the algorithm. This was developed in the intensive care unit of the Royal Free Hospital, London and is presently in use.

Published 29 November 2004 in Intensive Crit Care Nurs, 20(6): 320-9.
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