Do you hear bowel sounds with a colostomy?

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Would you hear bowel sounds in all four quadrants if a person had a colostomy? I guess would it depend on where the colostmy IS in the large intestine??

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Why wouldn't you? you answered your own question

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Yes, I believe it depends on where it's at.

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