Medicine
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?