A prospective observational study of abdominal injury management in contemporary military operations: Damage control laparotomy is associated with high survivability and low rates of fecal diversion

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 765-773

  Smith, Iain M ^a,b,c   Beech, Zine K M ^d   Lundy, Jonathan B ^e   Bowley, Douglas M ^c  

^a 202 (Midlands) Field Hospital Roger Nutbeem House Kings Heath   (United Kingdom)

^b Edgbaston   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Army Medical Dirct Support Unit   (United Kingdom)

^e US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal Injury; Anastomosis; Battlefield Injury; Damage Control Laparotomy; War Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABSCESS; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLADDER RUPTURE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COLON INJURY; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DAMAGE CONTROL LAPAROTOMY; DIARRHEA; EMPYEMA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FECAL DIVERSION; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HARTMANN PROCEDURE; HEART ARREST; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; ISCHIORECTAL ABSCESS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELENA; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PELVIS ABSCESS; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYNEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; STOMACH FISTULA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BLAST INJURIES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BLAST INJURIES; COLOSTOMY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURGICAL STOMAS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928769247     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000657     Document Type: Article

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