Management of abdominal sepsis - A paradigm shift?

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 400-408

  Leppäniemi, Ari ^a   Kimball, Edward J ^b   De Laet, Inneke ^c   Malbrain, Manu L N G ^c   Balogh, Zsolt J ^d   De Waele, Jan J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Stuivenberg General Hospital   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abdominal sepsis; Damage control; Intra abdominal infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ANASTOMOSIS; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROTOMY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PERITONITIS; SEPSIS; ABDOMEN; ADULT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; INTRA-ABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; PERITONITIS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84942361730     PISSN: 16425758     EISSN: 17312531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/AIT.a2015.0026     Document Type: Article

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