Intestinal obstruction is one of the commonest emergencies encountered in the pediatric age group. It has been recognized from many years as the principle challenge to the diagnostic acumen of paediatrician and therapeutic skill of surgeon. There was a tendency in past for surgeon to anticipate failure in managing pediatric obstruction specially in neonates but scenario has changed gradually in last few decades with improvement in methods of diagnosis, greater understanding of pathophysiology, availability of trained specialised personnel, safer anaesthesia, better antibiotics and much improved pre and post operative intensive care.
Material and Methods: The present prospective study was conducted on patients admitted with diagnosis of intestinal obstruction in Department of General Surgery, Govt. Medical College Jammu, from Jan.2015 to Sept. 2016 over a period of 21 months
Summary and Conclusions: Most of the patients (39.7%) were in age group of 1 month to 1 year. 66.7% patients were male with male to female ratio of 2:1. Most common cause was adhesions (20.5%). Out of 78 cases of non-neonatal intestinal obstruction in our study, 60 patients (76.9%) were operated.
