Emergency Laparotomy in the Critically Ill: Futility at the Bedside

BACKGROUND: Critically ill patients are often evaluated for an intra-abdominal catastrophe. In the absence of a preoperative diagnosis, abdominal exploration may be offered despite desperate circumstances. We hypothesize that (1) abdominal exploration for such patients is associated with a high mort...

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Autores principales: Martin, Niels D., Patel, Sagar P., Chreiman, Kristen, Pascual, Jose L., Braslow, Benjamin, Reilly, Patrick M., Kaplan, Lewis J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6129366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6398917

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