Control the damage: morbidity and mortality after emergent trauma laparotomy

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 34-39

  Harvin, John A ^a   Wray, Curtis J ^a   Steward, Joshua ^a   Lawless, Ryan A ^a   McNutt, Michelle K ^a   Love, Joseph D ^a   Moore, Laura J ^a   Wade, Charles E ^a   Cotton, Bryan A ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Damage control laparotomy; Morbidity; Mortality; Trauma

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; LACTIC ACID; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DAMAGE CONTROL LAPAROTOMY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ILEUS; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEMORRHAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84952333664     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2015.10.014     Document Type: Article

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