Background: Critically ill trauma patients are often too unstable for safe transfer to the operating room. Damage control laparotomy patients frequently require early reoperation and have a ...

A trial supported by Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit explores methods to reduce post-operative surgical site infections.

The care of the unstable critically ill trauma patient who has undergone damage control procedures may commonly require repeat laparotomy. The triad of hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy in ...