ACUTE ABDOMEN IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: ETIOLOGY, COMORBIDITY AND SEVERITY OF 1,523 PATIENTS.
Geraldo Fernandes de Almeida FilhoPedro Paulo Costa E SilvaMurilo Tavares Valverde FilhoMaria Clara Alves MoraisPaulo Bravo de Oliveira ChagasRicardo Azevedo Cruz D'OliveiraPaulo Lisboa BittencourtPaulo Bittencourt de MirandaPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery (2023)
Critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit with acute abdomen constitute a heterogeneous group of subjects with different prognosis. Mortality is more related to the severity of the disease, comorbidity and need for surgery than to the etiology of the acute abdomen.
Keyphrases
- liver failure
- intensive care unit
- respiratory failure
- drug induced
- end stage renal disease
- aortic dissection
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- minimally invasive
- hepatitis b virus
- mechanical ventilation
- risk factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- cardiovascular events
- type diabetes
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- coronary artery disease
- patient reported