Conservative versus operative management in stable patients with penetrating abdominal trauma: the experience of a Canadian level 1 trauma centre | Zendy

Sean Bennett | Zendy; Aysah Amath | Zendy; Heather Knight | Zendy; Jacinthe Lampron | Zendy

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Conservative versus operative management in stable patients with penetrating abdominal trauma: the experience of a Canadian level 1 trauma centre

Author(s) -

Sean Bennett,

Aysah Amath,

Heather Knight,

Jacinthe Lampron

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.015615

Subject(s) - medicine , laparotomy , penetrating trauma , abdominal trauma , intensive care unit , context (archaeology) , surgery , odds ratio , confidence interval , conservative management , injury severity score , peritonitis , blunt , poison control , injury prevention , emergency medicine , paleontology , biology

The goal of conservative management (CM) of penetrating abdominal trauma is to avoid nontherapeutic laparotomies while identifying injuries early. Factors that may predict CM failure are not well established, and the experience of CM has not been well described in the Canadian context.

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