Erschienen in:
01.02.2022 | Editorial
Focus on emergency general surgery
verfasst von:
Fernando Turégano
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
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Ausgabe 1/2022
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Excerpt
In this Focus-on issue on emergency general surgery-EGS, several studies have addressed common problems and some controversies that are still too relevant to the practice of EGS. They cover aspects such as the increasing importance of an adequate management program for the specialty, the search for a better prediction score for those patients with the all too frequent condition of small bowel obstruction-SBO in need of timely surgical management, an ESTES ‘snapshot audit’ of practice in complicated acute biliary calculous disease, the results of omental patch repair of large-size perforations of gastroduodenal ulcers, the feasibility of routine avoidance of postoperative NG tube decompression after acute SBO surgery, and, finally, the most appropriate open abdomen closure methods for severe abdominal sepsis. …
