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ReviewIndian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine2020

Emergency Laparotomies: Causes, Pathophysiology, and Outcomes.

Armin Ahmed, Afzal Azim

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Review in Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Validation of the emergency surgery score's predictive accuracy for postoperative outcomes and ICU admissions in MENA vs. non-MENA emergency surgery patients.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025
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  13. Hollow viscus injury due to blunt abdominal trauma: a tertiary trauma center experience.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Armin AhmedDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, King George Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Afzal AzimDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emergency laparotomies have remained a challenging entity since many decades. Only during the past 10 years, serious efforts have been made to improve their outcome by conducting audits and designing care pathways. Indications for emergency laparotomies can be broadly classified into trauma and non-trauma surgeries, which are either done for control of hemorrhage or/and done for control of sepsis and organ dysfunction. Goal-directed resuscitation for septic/hemorrhagic shock, consultant-led multidisciplinary teams, and timely transfer to intensive care units form core principles of management for these patients. Global inequity in access to standard and affordable emergency surgeries is an area of concern requiring integrated efforts at international level.

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Emergency laparotomyPerioperative carePerioperative mortalityQuality improvement

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PMID33354039
PMCPMC7724938

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