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Abdominal Trauma
A faculty lecture on blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma: the anatomic boundaries that decide what is injured, how mechanism predicts injury pattern, and the sequence of assessment and management in the unstable patient.
What this lecture covers
- Epidemiology, and the anatomic boundaries of the abdomen
- Mechanisms of injury, blunt and penetrating
- Restraining devices in motor vehicle collisions and the injuries they cause
- Common injury patterns by organ: spleen, liver, duodenum, genitourinary tract
- Initial assessment and continuous monitoring
- Investigations and when imaging changes the decision
- Indications for laparotomy
- Management of the unstable patient
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