Bedside laparotomy for trauma: Are there risks?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-20

  Diaz Jr , Jose J ^a   Mauer, Adele ^a   May, Addison K ^a   Miller, Richard ^a   Guy, Jeffrey S ^a   Morris Jr , John A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACID BASE BALANCE; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942511693     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109629604773860264     Document Type: Review

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