Abdominal Key

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Injuries to the pancreas and duodenum present a significant challenge, for a number of reasons. First, while their deep, central position affords the organs some degree…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The technique of initial abortion of laparotomy, establishment of intra-abdominal pack tamponade, and then completion of the surgical procedure once coagulation has returned to an acceptable…

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Print Section Listen Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains frustratingly resistant to the advances that have improved outcome from so many other types of injury. Recent progress in…

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF EYE TRAUMA Print Section Listen Worldwide 1.6 million people are estimated to be blind from ocular trauma and another 19 million people suffer from severely impaired vision in…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pelvic injuries (PI) are frequent, particularly after blunt trauma (9% of all blunt trauma patients), and range from clinically insignificant minor pelvic fractures to life-threatening injuries…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen One of the first reported cases of cervical trauma was in Homer’s Iliad when Achilles delivered a fatal lance blow to Hector’s neck, “where the clavicle…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Splenic injuries demonstrate themselves clinically more often than do hepatic injuries, making it the most commonly injured solid viscus requiring laparotomy. During the past 50 years,…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Injury to a major peripheral artery can be limb threatening. If active hemorrhage is present and not urgently controlled, vascular trauma can be life threatening. In…

COLON INJURIES Print Section Listen Introduction The approach to patients who have sustained colon trauma has changed dramatically over the last several decades. This has been associated with a significant…

INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The incidence of trauma related injuries during pregnancy has increased dramatically over the past 25 years1 and is now the leading cause of nonobstetrical maternal death…