Damage Control Conception: Chose the Best Priority

Document Type : Review Article

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Associate Professor of General Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Shahid Rajaie Hospital, Trauma Research Center, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract
Damage control surgery (DCS) represents a staged surgical approach to the treatment of critically surgical approach to the treatment of critically injured trauma patients. Originally described in the context of hepatic trauma and post injury induced coagulopathy, the indications for DCS have extended to the management of extra abdominal trauma and non traumatic acute abdominal emergencies. Significant progress in trauma based resuscitation techniques had le to improved outcomes and a reduction in the DCS requirement.

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