Spinal anesthesia in the treatment of postoperative intestinal paralysis

One of the serious complications after surgery, which has to be feared, is intestinal paralysis. No matter how carefully the intestines are handled during laparotomies, the latter is often subject to injury from both mechanical stress and from drying, cooling, the use of chemicals and from general anesthesia. To a certain extent, intestinal atony occurs almost after each laparotomy, but in the vast majority of cases this atony is safe, after 1-2 days, normal bowel function occurs on its own or after taking a number of therapeutic measures, such as a heating pad, enema, bowel lavage, from drugs - physiostigmine, pituitrin, etc. In some cases, therapeutic measures do not give the desired effect. There is such a degree of paralytic state of the intestine, which dictates the need for urgent surgical measures (enterostomosis).