Emergency Laparotomy in the Critically Ill: Futility at the Bedside.

Niels D MartinSagar P PatelKristen ChreimanJose L PascualBenjamin BraslowPatrick M ReillyLewis J Kaplan

Published in: Critical care research and practice (2018)

The need for BSL portends an extremely high mortality rate and is likely useful in preintervention counselling. Emergency OR laparotomy leads to mortality in nearly half of such patients and is anticipatable based on concurrent abnormal physiology.

Keyphrases

emergency department
public health
end stage renal disease
cardiovascular events
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newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
risk factors
prognostic factors
squamous cell carcinoma
type diabetes
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