A Balloon’s Journey Over The Red Falls
The use of REBOA in exsanguinating trauma patients is recognized as a life-saving procedure. However, it is not exempt from possible complications. In this post, you can learn everything you need to know about its use.
The Fine Art of the Fakir
Over the last few years, new techniques have been developed to better manage actively bleeding trauma patients, even hemodynamically unstable. The EndoVascular resuscitation and Trauma Management concept aims to combine endovascular techniques and ATLS' and DSTC's principles to obtain faster bleeding control, thus minimizing blood loss.
The Spice That Makes Things Hot
Sometimes the open abdomen and appropriate resuscitation are not enough to make patients recover from their pathological state... In these rare but threatening events, direct peritoneal resuscitation comes handy to help and fasten patients' healing.
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...
