A perforated bowel is a medical emergency that requires immediate surgery. Without treatment, it can cause severe infections, including sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection.

Mum Kaela Modery said her 4-year-old son mistakenly ate magnets believing they were sprinkles, and then needed to be rushed to hospital for emergency surgery to remove them ...

During the operation, a bowel injury occurred, leading to life-threatening complications that required emergency surgery 36 hours later. The patient endured weeks in ... The plaintiff's expert argued ...

Susan Warby, 57, was admitted to West Suffolk Hospital in July 2018 with a perforated bowel ... The inquest heard that after bowel surgery, the contents of the drip were not checked properly ...

He underwent emergency surgery, which resulted in the removal ... A hospital consultant later told her the perforated bowel meant the organ had "effectively exploded and the whole contents of ...