AVAS Best Clinical Resident Award (Tied): Management and outcomes of the open abdomen in nontrauma patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 588-592

  Balentine, Courtney ^a   Subramanian, Anuradha ^a   Palacio, Carlos H ^a   Sansgiry, Shubhada ^a   Berger, David H ^a   Awad, Samir S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency general surgery; Intra abdominal catastrophe; Open abdomen

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

APACHE; COMORBIDITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 71749113690     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.023     Document Type: Article

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