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Ongoing Intraabdominal Infection Requiring ICU Care: Prioritizing Treatment Decisions

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Abdominal sepsis is a frequent clinical problem in the critical care setting and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality rates. Early detection and appropriate therapeutic interventions are very important to improve clinical outcome in this condition. In this chapter, the key concepts and considerations, including technical aspects that may facilitate and optimize the timely prioritization and ongoing surgical therapy in patients with intraabdominal infections are reviewed.

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  2. Division of Trauma, Department of Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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  3. Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Tarek Razek

  4. Department of Surgery/ Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical and Acute Care, Weill Cornell Medicine/ New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

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Weber, D.G. (2019). Ongoing Intraabdominal Infection Requiring ICU Care: Prioritizing Treatment Decisions. In: Picetti, E., Pereira, B., Razek, T., Narayan, M., Kashuk, J. (eds) Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons. Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11830-3_15

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