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Damage Control Surgery Principles in Abdominal Trauma

Quick fact

Damage control surgery was popularized in the 1990s after a landmark 1993 paper by Rotondo et al., which showed that a staged approach dramatically improved survival in patients with major vascular and visceral abdominal injuries.

Why this is interesting

Imagine a patient bleeding so profusely that the standard approach of repairing everything would be fatal. What if the best initial surgery is to do less, not more?