Open AccessCritical care issues in solid organ injury: Review and experience in a tertiary trauma center
Author(s) -
Chhavi Sawhney,
Manpreet Kaur,
Babita Gupta,
Preet Mohinder Singh,
Amit Gupta,
Subodh Kumar,
MC Misra
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/1658-354x.144065
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , trauma center , injury severity score , splenectomy , abdominal trauma , retrospective cohort study , surgery , solid organ , damage control surgery , liver injury , blunt , poison control , emergency medicine , organ transplantation , injury prevention , resuscitation , spleen , transplantation
Solid organ (spleen and liver) injuries are dreaded by both surgeons and anesthesiologists because of associated high morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this review is to describe our experience of critical care concerns in solid organ injury, which otherwise has been poorly addressed in the literature.