- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The trauma epidemic
- Pre-hospital emergency care
- Initial assessment
- The trauma team
- Airway management in trauma
- Assessment of breathing—thoracic injuries
- Circulatory assessment
- Head injuries
- Radiology in trauma
- Tertiary survey
- Spinal injury
- Abdominal trauma
- Pelvic injuries
- Limb injuries
- Crush injury
- Vascular trauma
- Eye trauma
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Damage control
- Paediatric trauma
- Trauma in pregnancy
- Burn injuries
- Penetrating torso injury
- Ballistic and blast injuries
- Chemical, biological, and radiation injuries
- Critical care issues in trauma
- Trauma retrieval
- Psychological aspects of trauma
- Rehabilitation after trauma
- Commonly missed injuries
- Research in trauma
- Bariatric trauma
- Major incidents
- Table 33.4. 2 × 2 Triage Table
(p. 209) Abdominal trauma
- Chapter:
- (p. 209) Abdominal trauma
- Author(s):
Jason Smith
, Ian Greaves
, and Keith M Porter
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199543328.003.0012
Abdominal trauma 210
Initial assessment 216
Resuscitation room investigations 218
Investigations outside the resuscitation room 222
The trauma laparotomy and damage control 226
Selective non-operative management 230
Critical decision making in abdominal trauma 232
Further reading 236
The abdominal cavity extends from the inguinal ligaments below, to the costal margins above, with the domes of the diaphragm rising to the level of the 4th or 5th intercostal space in full expiration—the anterior axillary lines represent its lateral extremes. The flanks lie between the anterior and posterior axillary lines on both sides, and the back between the two posterior axillary lines. The abdominal viscera are distributed between the intraperitoneal and retroperitoneal compartments, both of which extend into the pelvis....
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- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- The trauma epidemic
- Pre-hospital emergency care
- Initial assessment
- The trauma team
- Airway management in trauma
- Assessment of breathing—thoracic injuries
- Circulatory assessment
- Head injuries
- Radiology in trauma
- Tertiary survey
- Spinal injury
- Abdominal trauma
- Pelvic injuries
- Limb injuries
- Crush injury
- Vascular trauma
- Eye trauma
- Maxillofacial trauma
- Damage control
- Paediatric trauma
- Trauma in pregnancy
- Burn injuries
- Penetrating torso injury
- Ballistic and blast injuries
- Chemical, biological, and radiation injuries
- Critical care issues in trauma
- Trauma retrieval
- Psychological aspects of trauma
- Rehabilitation after trauma
- Commonly missed injuries
- Research in trauma
- Bariatric trauma
- Major incidents
- Table 33.4. 2 × 2 Triage Table