Management of a pregnant patient with an open abdomen

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1052-1056

  Aboutanos, Sharline Z ^a   Aboutanos, Michel B ^a   Malhotra, Ajai K ^a   Duane, Therese M ^a   Ivatury, Rao R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COLON INJURY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SKIN NECROSIS; THORAX INJURY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WOUND CARE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VACUUM; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 30344460528     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000188648.81279.a8     Document Type: Article

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