Evaluation of the abdomen in the critically ill patient: Opening the black box

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-339

  Crandall, Marie ^a   West, Michael A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Hemorrhage; Ischemia; MODS; Peritonitis; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CRYSTALLOID; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ENTERITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS;

EID: 33746084110     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ccx.0000235211.79236.83     Document Type: Review

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