Emergency surgery for acute diverticulitis: Which operation? A national surgical quality improvement program study

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1385-1391

  Tadlock, Mathew D ^a   Karamanos, Efstathios ^a   Skiada, Dimitra ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Talving, Peep ^a   Senagore, Anthony ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute diverticulitis; Hartmann's procedure; Primary anastomosis; Proximal diversion

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; STEROID;

ABSCESS; ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLOSTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84880085486     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182924a82     Document Type: Article

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