1. Mortality after emergent trauma laparotomy
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Tom Maxim, Lindsay Cattin, Joanelle A. Bailey, Deborah M. Stein, John A. Harvin, Martin D. Zielinski, Kenji Inaba, Jeffrey D. Kerby, Sam Akinyeye, Vicente J. Undurraga Perl, S. Rob Todd, John B. Holcomb, Kyle W. Cunningham, Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, Eileen M. Bulger, David H. Livingston, Alison Wilson, David R. King, Myriam A. Martinez-Aguilar, Russell Griffin, Asad J. Choudhry, Hasan B. Alam, and Martin A. Schreiber
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,General surgery ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Psychological intervention ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Retrospective cohort study ,Hospital mortality ,030230 surgery ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Emergent Trauma ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Multicenter study ,Interim ,Laparotomy ,medicine ,Injury Severity Score ,Surgery ,Intensive care medicine ,business - Abstract
BACKGROUNDTwo decades ago, hypotensive trauma patients requiring emergent laparotomy had a 40% mortality. In the interim, multiple interventions to decrease hemorrhage-related mortality have been implemented but few have any documented evidence of change in outcomes for patients requiring emergent l
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- 2017