Impact of closure at the first take back: Complication burden and potential overutilization of damage control laparotomy

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1503-1511

  Hatch, Quinton M ^a   Osterhout, Lisa M ^a   Podbielski, Jeanette ^a   Kozar, Rosemary A ^a   Wade, Charles E ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a   Cotton, Bryan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications and organ failure; Damage control; Laparotomy; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACIDOSIS; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMAGE CONTROL LAPAROTOMY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EMPYEMA; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FASCIA; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; ILEUS; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREAS INJURY; PELVIS ABSCESS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; SEPSIS; SPLEEN INJURY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84255199360     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31823cd78d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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