THE ACUTE ABDOMEN IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT

摘要: Some of the greatest advances in modern medicine have been arena critical care. The progress assisted ventilation, inotropic support, and extracorporeal hemodynamic support has remarkable over last 30 years. Advances cardiopulmonary bypass techniques such that coronary artery grafting is now one most common operations performed United States. benefit these irrefutable. These also allowed for development a group patients to live very tenuous state much longer periods time than ever before. While many go on do well, some develop further complications. who are critically ill acute abdominal complications will be subject this discussion. patient with an abdomen presents difficult dilemma. Many nonabdominal conditions cause person become provide mechanism processes. Similarly, processes perpetuation state. We discuss primarily associated (CPB), shock, prior operations, other catastrophic illness.