Building Dams like Beavers
Managing a bleeding patient outside your comfort zone can be challenging... Learn how to save a life with three simple maneuvers...
The Chicken & The Egg
Two famous techiques to manage patients with pelvic trauma are the preperitoneal pelvic packing and the angioembolization... But, when to use them? How? Can they be used together?
The Strange Story of Salmons Swimming Upstream
Acute cholangitis is not really a surgical disease. However, it is better to know how to correctly identify and manage it, since it may precipitate the patient's condition, rapidly leading to multiorgan failure and death...
How to Close the Pandora’s Box – Part 2
The second part of our post on the open abdomen management... Nothing comes without a price... Open abdomen carries several possible complications... Find them out, and learn how to close it definitively...
How to Close the Pandora’s Box – Part 1
How to fashion an open abdomen?! There are a lot of techniques... Some better than others... Let's find them out...
