• Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed · Sep 2014

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    [Diagnosis and therapy of an acute abdomen].

    • A Hecker, B Hecker, K Kipfmüller, J Holler, E Schneck, M Reichert, M A Weigand, W Padberg, and M Hecker.
    • Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Thorax-, Transplantations- und Kinderchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH, Standort Gießen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Str. 7, 35392, Gießen, Deutschland, andreas.hecker@chiru.med.uni-giessen.de.
    • Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed. 2014 Sep 1; 109 (6): 445-56; quiz 457-8.

    AbstractPatients with signs of an acute abdomen continue to be a challenge for both the emergency physician and the intensivist. Clinical symptoms usually result from secondary peritonitis possibly progressing to intraabdominal sepsis. Critically ill patients need rapid diagnostic work-up and an interdisciplinary therapeutic approach. Among patients with secondary peritonitis, those with postoperative peritonitis (e.g., after anastomotic leakage) show a particularly high mortality because of unspecific symptoms. Beyond routine diagnostic procedures, patients with an acute abdomen often require a CT scan which helps to detect the septic focus, thereby often allowing an interventional source control. Therapy consists of three main elements: source control, broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy, and supportive intensive care medicine.

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