Damage control surgery: An alternative approach for the management of critically injured patients

Surgery Today

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 195-202

  Kouraklis, Gregory ^a   Spirakos, Spiros ^a   Glinavou, Andromachi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal packing; Damage control surgery; Hemorrhage; Reoperation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE; LIVER INJURY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SPILLAGE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE; WARMING;

ABDOMEN; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REOPERATION; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036209923     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950200020     Document Type: Review

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