%0 Journal Article
%T Damage control or definitive repair? A retrospective review of abdominal trauma at a major trauma center in South Africa
%A Abraham Ras
%A Damian Clarke
%A Grant Laing
%A Joanna Blodgett
%A Johan Buitendag
%A John Bruce
%A Ross Weale
%A Vassil Manchev
%A Victor Kong
%A Wanda Bekker
%J Archive of "Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open".
%D 2019
%R 10.1136/tsaco-2018-000235
%X This study set out to review a large series of trauma laparotomies from a single center and to compare those requiring damage control surgery (DCS) with those who did not, and then to interrogate a number of anatomic and physiologic scoring systems to see which best predicted the need for DCS
%K trauma
%K critical care
%K laparotomy
%K damage control
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560474/