Avoiding futile damage control laparotomy

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-68

  Kairinos, Nicolas ^a   Hayes, Philip M ^a   Nicol, Andrew J ^a   Kahn, Delawir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Abbreviated celiotomy; Abbreviated laparotomy; Damage control laparotomy; Damage control surgery; Predicting mortality; Trauma laparotomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORE TEMPERATURE; DAMAGE CONTROL LAPAROTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACIDOSIS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; LAPAROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 71649090671     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.05.036     Document Type: Article

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