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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar

Print version ISSN 0138-6557On-line version ISSN 1561-3046

Abstract

VELAZQUEZ PUPO, Alejandro; MARTINEZ ALVARADO, Miguel V; ESCALONA BLANCHEY, Yanet  and  MENENDEZ LOPEZ, José R. Damage Control Surgery as an Intervention Paradigm for Surgical Activity in the Severely Injured. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2016, vol.45, n.2. ISSN 0138-6557.

This paper compiles the papers that have been published in the Academic Search Premier Database using the benefits of EBSCO Information Services Platform. The approach of this topic is pertinent in the current moments of the context of the surgical practice in scenarios of combat actions in Middle East and Africa in relation to the regional warlike conflicts occuring there. This paper points out the experiences reported in orthopedic surgery, abdominal surgery with special reference to hepatic lesions, thoracic surgery, intra-abdominal vascular surgery, as well as some peculiarities its use in other contingencies conditioned by the increasingly frequent use of this modality of surgical intervention, which extends at present to other fields not related to trauma, such as pancreatic surgery. Finally, we report the considerations on the routine use of this technique taking into account the technological development in the decision of clinical and humoral parameters currently available.

Keywords : damage control surgery; orthopedic injuries; liver injury; emergency surgery.

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