The abdominal compartment syndrome is a morbid complication of postinjury damage control surgery

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 542-546

  Raeburn, Christopher D ^a   Moore, Ernest E ^a   Biffl, Walter L ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey L ^a   Meldrum, Daniel R ^a   Offner, Patrick J ^a   Franciose, Reginald J ^a   Burch, Jon M ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal compartment syndrome; Damage control surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; AIRWAY PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE;

EID: 0035706829     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(01)00821-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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