Presented by Adeel A Shamim, MD at the SS21: Acute Care Surgery held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Friday, March 24, 2017
Keyword(s): abdomen, abdominal injury, acute care surgery, acute traumatic diaphragmatic hernia, anesthesiologist, blunt trauma, diagnostic laparoscopy, diaphragm, Endostitch, experience, gastric decompression, Harmonic scalpel, hemodynamic instability, hernia defect, injury, intrathoracic, laparoscopic reduction, laparoscopic surgery, left upper quadrant, liver, lung, LUQ, mesh, midline, morbidity, mortality, motor vehicle accident, MVA, nasogastric tube, Nathanson retractor, NGT, open repair, optiview trocar, pneumoperitoneum, retraction, sepsis, suture line, tension, thoracoabdominal trauma, transabdominal, transthoracic, trauma surgery, Valsalva maneuver, x-ray