IROA: the International Register of Open Abdomen.: An international effort to better understand the open abdomen: call for participants.

ABSTRACT: Actually the most common indications for Open Abdomen (OA) are trauma, abdominal sepsis, severe acute pancreatitis and more in general all those situations in which an intra-abdominal hypertension condition is present, in order to prevent the development of an abdominal compartment syndrome. The mortality and morbidity rate in patients undergone to OA procedures is still high. At present many studies have been published about the OA management and the progresses in survival rate of critically ill trauma and septic surgical patients. However several issues are still unclear and need more extensive studies. The definitions of indications, applications and methods to close the OA are still matter of debate. To overcome this lack of high level of evidence data about the OA indications, managem

SUBMITTER: Coccolini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4537582 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature