%0 Journal Article
%T Damage control operations in non-trauma patients: defining criteria for the staged rapid source control laparotomy in emergency general surgery
%A Andrew B. Peitzman
%A Jared R. Gallaher
%A Jason L. Sperry
%A Lucas P. Neff
%A Michael C. Chang
%A Preston R. Miller
%A Robert D. Becher
%A Yankai Sun
%J Archive of "World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13017-016-0067-4
%X The staged laparotomy in the operative management of emergency general surgery (EGS) patients is an extension of trauma surgeons operating on this population. Indications for its application, however, are not well defined, and are currently based on the lethal triad used in physiologically-decompensated trauma patients. This study sought to determine the acute indications for the staged, rapid source control laparotomy (RSCL) in EGS patients
%K Damage control
%K Emergency general surgery
%K EGS
%K Rapid source control laparotomy
%K Physiologically decompensated
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4765073/