• Injury · Jan 1992

    Emergency laparotomy for abdominal trauma.

    • R D Sayers, P C Bewes, and K M Porter.
    • Birmingham Accident Hospital, UK.
    • Injury. 1992 Jan 1; 23 (8): 537-41.

    AbstractWe have retrospectively reviewed our experience of 153 consecutive patients who underwent emergency laparotomy for suspected intraabdominal injury over a 10-year period. The commonest cause of injury was road traffic accidents (61 per cent), and the commonest indication for operation was signs of peritoneal irritation (35 per cent). Peritoneal lavage was performed in 62 patients (41 per cent). The liver was the organ most frequently injured (52 patients, 34 per cent) and 52 per cent of these patients died. Splenic injuries occurred in 46 patients (30 per cent). The negative laparotomy rate was 16 per cent. Forty-five patients died (29 per cent) and five of these had negative laparotomies. The Injury Severity Score (ISS) of all patients who died was > 16.

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