Open AccessBedside diagnostic laparoscopy for critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit: Retrospective study and review of literature
Author(s) -
Giovanni Alemanno,
Paolo Prosperi,
Annamaria Di Bella,
Filippo Socci,
Stefano Batacchi,
Adriano Peris,
Matteo Pieri,
Giuseppe Olivo,
Pietro Quilghini,
Paolo Fontanari,
Pierluigi Stefàno,
Alessio Giordano,
Veronica Iacopini,
Carlo Bergamini,
Andrea Valeri
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/jmas.jmas_232_17
Subject(s) - medicine , critically ill , intensive care unit , laparoscopy , intensive care medicine , general surgery , retrospective cohort study , surgery
Bedside diagnostic laparoscopy could be helpful in extremely critically ill patients. The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate the safety and diagnostic accuracy of bedside diagnostic laparoscopy in the identification of intra-abdominal pathology in critically ill patients and to compare its accuracy and outcomes with the ones of laparotomy.