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Damage Control in Abdomen and Thorax

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From Harlan Stone’s initial description in 1983 of abbreviated surgery in critically ill multi-trauma patients to the current techniques and technology now available, the tenets of damage control surgery continue to be control of hemorrhage and gastrointestinal contamination. A term borrowed from maneuvers to stabilize and battle-damaged ships, damage control surgery (and more broadly damage control resuscitation) is an important tool in a trauma surgeon’s armamentarium. For critically ill trauma patients, performance of a brief temporary repair of traumatic injuries and delaying definitive management until after physiologic correction may improve outcomes and survivability.

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Nguyen, A., Coimbra, R. (2022). Damage Control in Abdomen and Thorax. In: Pape, HC., Borrelli Jr., J., Moore, E.E., Pfeifer, R., Stahel, P.F. (eds) Textbook of Polytrauma Management . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95906-7_26

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