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A 72-year-old man recently underwent flexible sigmoidoscopic decompression for sigmoid volvulus, but the procedure was unsuccessful. He now develops generalized guarding and has a lactate of 4.2 mmol/L.
What is the next appropriate management step?

IV antibiotics only

Repeat sigmoidoscopy in 6 hours

Right hemicolectomy

Urgent laparotomy with sigmoid colectomy

Caecopexy

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