"Damage control" in the elderly: Futile endeavor or fruitful enterprise?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1049-1053

  Newell, Mark A ^a   Schlitzkus, Lisa L ^a   Waibel, Brett H ^a   White, Michael A ^a   Schenarts, Paul J ^a   Rotondo, Michael F ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage control laparotomy; Elderly; Geriatric; Outcomes; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMAGE CONTROL LAPAROTOMY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROTOMY; LEG THROMBOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549265788     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181ed4e7a     Document Type: Article

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