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damage control surgery: a standalone construct

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Trauma surgery

a staged approach to severe abdominal injury: an abbreviated operation to control bleeding and contamination, then physiological restoration, then definitive repair.

In trauma surgery, damage control surgery refers to a staged approach to severe abdominal injury: an abbreviated operation to control bleeding and contamination, then physiological restoration, then definitive repair. This meaning comes from Rotondo (1993) in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care.[1]

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References

  1. Rotondo, M. F., Schwab, C. W., McGonigal, M. D., Phillips, G. R., Fruchterman, T. M., Kauder, D. R., Latenser, B. A., & Angood, P. A. (1993). ‘damage Control'. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 35(3), 375-383. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-199309000-00008

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