Secondary Abdominal Compartment Syndrome following Severe Extremity Injury: Unavoidable or Unnecessary?
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Abdominal compartment syndrome.
Acute renal failure frequently occurs in the intensive care unit as a primary or secondary event in association with trauma, surgery, or comorbid medical disease. An increasingly common thread linking surgical and medical disease management is the abdominal compartment syndrome. In particular, the rise of early goal-directed therapy for the initial resuscitation and management of severe sepsis ...
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