• Colomb Medica · Dec 2020

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    Pancreatic damage control: the pancreas is simple don't complicate it.

    • Carlos A Ordoñez, Michael W Parra, Mauricio Millán, Yaset Caicedo, Natalia Padilla, Mónica Guzmán-Rodríguez, Fernando Miñan-Arana, Alberto García, Adolfo González-Hadad, Luis Fernando Pino, Fernando Rodríguez-Holguin, José Julián Serna, Alexander Salcedo, Ricardo Ferrada, and Rao Ivatury.
    • Fundación Valle del Lili, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Cali, Colombia.
    • Colomb Medica. 2020 Dec 30; 51 (4): e4164361e4164361.

    AbstractPancreatic trauma is a rare but potentially lethal injury because often it is associated with other abdominal organ or vascular injuries. Usually, it has a late clinical presentation which in turn complicates the management and overall prognosis. Due to the overall low prevalence of pancreatic injuries, there has been a significant lack of consensus among trauma surgeons worldwide on how to appropriately and efficiently diagnose and manage them. The accurate diagnosis of these injuries is difficult due to its anatomical location and the fact that signs of pancreatic damage are usually of delayed presentation. The current surgical trend has been moving towards organ preservation in order to avoid complications secondary to exocrine and endocrine function loss and/or potential implicit post-operative complications including leaks and fistulas. The aim of this paper is to propose a management algorithm of patients with pancreatic injuries via an expert consensus. Most pancreatic injuries can be managed with a combination of hemostatic maneuvers, pancreatic packing, parenchymal wound suturing and closed surgical drainage. Distal pancreatectomies with the inevitable loss of significant amounts of healthy pancreatic tissue must be avoided. General principles of damage control surgery must be applied when necessary followed by definitive surgical management when and only when appropriate physiological stabilization has been achieved. It is our experience that viable un-injured pancreatic tissue should be left alone when possible in all types of pancreatic injuries accompanied by adequate closed surgical drainage with the aim of preserving primary organ function and decreasing short and long term morbidity.Copyright © 2020 Colombia Medica.

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