Management of the Open Abdomen

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-153

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Salim, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage control; Enteroatmospheric fistula; Intra abdominal hypertension; Open abdomen; Peritoneal sepsis; Temporary abdominal closure

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTEROATMOSPHERIC FISTULA; FASCIA; FISTULA; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTRAABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OPEN ABDOMEN TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DAMAGE CONTROL; ENTEROATMOSPHERIC FISTULA; INTRA-ABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; OPEN ABDOMEN; PERITONEAL SEPSIS; TEMPORARY ABDOMINAL CLOSURE;

ABDOMEN; ACUTE DISEASE; FASCIA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTRA-ABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SUCTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84888150620     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2013.10.010     Document Type: Review

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