The bail agent will get this information when they contact the jail if you do not have it. With the bail amount, the bail bondsman can tell you the amount it will cost to post a bond and requirements to get the person out of jail.
A strangulated obstruction is a surgical emergency. In patients with a complete small-bowel obstruction (SBO), the risk of strangulation is high and early surgical intervention is warranted. Patients with simple complete obstructions in whom nonoperative trials fail also need surgical treatment but experience no apparent disadvantage to delayed surgery.
A patient with SBO will have dilated small bowel proximal to the obstruction and relatively decompressed small bowel distal to the obstruction. We use 3cm as the maximum diameter for normal small bowel. However, common sense must prevail. If the proximal bowel is 2.8 cm and the distal bowel is completely collapsed there is an obstruction. The dilated bowel can be completely fluid filled, or have multiple air fluid levels.