Penetrating abdominal injuries: management controversies

MU Butt, N Zacharias, GC Velmahos - Scandinavian journal of trauma …, 2009 - Springer
Penetrating abdominal injuries have been traditionally managed by routine laparotomy.
New understanding of trajectories, potential for organ injury, and correlation with advanced …

ICU management of trauma patients

SA Tisherman, DM Stein - Critical Care Medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To describe the current state of the art regarding management of the critically ill
trauma patient with an emphasis on initial management in the ICU. Data Sources and Study …

Outcome of selective non-operative management of penetrating abdominal injuries from the North American National Trauma Database

S Nabeel Zafar, A Rushing, ER Haut… - Journal of British …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background The aim of this study was to investigate trends in the practice of selective non-
operative management (SNOM) for penetrating abdominal injury (PAI) and to determine …

Abdominal trauma in Durban, South Africa: factors influencing outcome

MN Mnguni, DJJ Muckart… - International …, 2012 - meridian.allenpress.com
Abdominal injury as a result of both blunt and penetrating trauma has an appreciable
mortality rate from hemorrhage and sepsis. In this article, we present our experience with the …

Selective nonoperative management of liver gunshot injuries

PH Navsaria, AJ Nicol, JE Krige, S Edu - Annals of surgery, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Nonoperative management (NOM) of liver gunshot injuries is yet to gain general
acceptance. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and safety of selective NOM of …

An audit of failed non-operative management of abdominal stab wounds

DL Clarke, NL Allorto, SR Thomson - Injury, 2010 - Elsevier
Selective non-operative management based on clinical assessment has been shown to be a
generally safe approach in the management of penetrating stab wounds of the torso …

Surgical versus non‐surgical management of abdominal injury

A Oyo‐Ita, P Chinnock… - Cochrane Database of …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Injury to the abdomen can be blunt or penetrating. Abdominal injury can
damage internal organs such as the liver, spleen, kidneys, intestine, and large blood …

The spectrum of diaphragmatic injury in a busy metropolitan surgical service

DL Clarke, B Greatorex, GV Oosthuizen, DJ Muckart - Injury, 2009 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: The diaphragm may be injured by penetrating or blunt trauma.
Diaphragmatic breach without visceral injury or herniation may be difficult to detect due to a …

[HTML][HTML] Current management of penetrating torso trauma: nontherapeutic is not good enough anymore

CG Ball - Canadian Journal of Surgery, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the introduction of firearms at the 1346 Battle of Crecy, the management of penetrating
abdominal wounds has been debated. In 1834, a French military surgeon (Dr. Baudens) …

Outcomes of selective nonoperative management of civilian abdominal gunshot wounds: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AN Al Rawahi, FA Al Hinai, JM Boyd, CJ Doig… - World Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Although mandatory laparotomy has been standard of care for patients with
abdominal gunshot wounds (GSWs) for decades, this approach is associated with non …