BACKGROUND Nonoperative management (NOM) is standard of care for most pediatric
blunt liver and spleen injuries (BLSI); only 5% of patients fail NOM in retrospective reports …

PURPOSE: Nonoperative management is standard treatment of blunt liver or spleen injuries.
However, there are few reports outlining the natural history and outcomes of severe blunt …

Background: Nonoperative management (NOM) of blunt hepatic injury is the standard of
care in the hemodynamically stable pediatric patient, but it is not without pitfalls. The …

Background Non-operative management of blunt liver and spleen injuries was championed
initially in children with the first management guideline published in 2000 by the American …

Objective The authors assessed the risks of nonoperative management of solid visceral in
children (age range, 4 months-14 years) who were consecutively admitted to a level I …

BACKGROUND: In this study the results of non-operative management of pediatric hepatic
injury after blunt abdominal trauma were evaluated. METHODS: Multitrauma patients (n …

BACKGROUND Nonoperative management of liver and spleen injury should be achievable
for more than 95% of children. Large national studies continue to show that some regions …

Though nonoperative management of stable children with blunt solid organ injury has been
shown to be effective, we hypothesize that hepatic injuries represent a higher mortality risk …

Background: Severe blunt hepatic injury in children is associated with a high mortality rate.
Although nonoperative management has become the treatment of choice for mild to …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of operative versus nonoperative
management of blunt hepatic trauma in children including transfusion practices. We …